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...Episcopal missionaries still in Japan (20 of the 85 there in 1940) were last week ordered to leave at once by the Right Rev. Charles Shriver Reifsnider. Bishop Reifsnider is one of the three American bishops who were at the head of the church in Japan until the Government forced foreign-mission executives to resign last year. This May, soon after Episcopalians turned over some $5,059,339 worth of property to native churchmen, bland Japanese decorated him with the Order of the Sacred Treasure...
Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a precise Baltimore bachelor, an alumnus of Johns Hopkins. He stuttered terribly but never let that bother him. As a Maryland gourmet, he was famed for his perfect dinner parties. As a Maryland lawyer, he specialized in wills. Last September Alfred Shriver died, aged 72, leaving a will that was something...
...Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was the stipulation that one mural shall show the famous beauties of Baltimore...
...subjects for this mural precise Alfred Shriver knew exactly whom he wanted: ten ladies whom he had known and admired from his youth up. Some of them: Mrs. Bruce Gotten, called by the Baltimore Sun "one of the most beautiful women that ever grew up in this city"; Mrs. J. Lee Tailor, who in middle age still had "the most exquisite coloring, with perfect Titian hair and eyes the color of violets"; Mrs. James Brown Potter, who did not marry until she was 38, when the Sun enthused: "The most beautiful violet grown in Richmond was named for her. . Possibly...
Last week the trustees of hard-up Hopkins voted to accept the Shriver bequest, kept a discreet silence as to when, how and by whom the Baltimore Beauties would be immuralized...