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Measuring 15 ft. 9 in. bumper to bumper, the Goddess is the longest, roomiest (six passengers) mass-production model in France and, at 930,000 francs ($2,657), the costliest. But by week's end thousands of Frenchmen had plunked down cash deposits of $215 apiece, virtually bought out production for the next 27 months...
...Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S., as Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill has remarked, is "the roomiest church in the world." But despite the doctrinal roominess, there remains a sharp-edged division between its High and Low Church members-between those who regard their church as basically (Anglo) Catholic and those who emphasize its Protestantism. Last week U.S. Episcopalians got a new publication dedicated to smoothing the sharp edges of division, and giving the church a national news magazine into the bargain. The unity which Episcopal Churchnews seeks to promote is expressed on its logotype: "Catholic for every Truth...
...Yard Dress. About 18 months ago a new doctor, A. G. Goude, came to Burnips and studied Mrs. Levandowski. By that time her roomiest dress, made of six yards of cloth, was getting too tight. Her abdomen hung to her swollen knees. Dr. Goude decided that her bad heart was caused by pressure of the cyst. If the cyst were removed by surgery, all might be well...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...
Back in New York, Dr. Newton became pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity which he gave up in 1925 because of the ''arid liberalism" of Manhattan theology. He went over to the Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine...