Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pioneer Rainsford's retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present...
Albert L. Reeves Jr., 40, tall, solemn, Kansas City, Mo. Republican who trounced Enos A. Axtell, the Pendergast candidate raised to temporary notoriety by Harry Truman's endorsement last summer. An ex-lieutenant colonel of engineers and onetime speech teacher at Texas' Baylor University, Al Reeves is the son of a famed federal judge who indicted scores of Pendergast lieutenants for election fraud...
Perhaps the most spectacular gesture of conciliation was made by Russia's cynical, ductile Andrei Vishinsky, who led a five-man Soviet delegation into St. Patrick's Cathedral to attend a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the United Nations on the Feast of Christ the King...
...covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo Romance (240 pp., 18 yen or $1.20), Hoberecht was rolling in yen-which he could not spend outside Japan. A publisher was hounding him for rights to an English-language edition. (Hoberecht wrote his book in English...
...race-troubled Detroit last week, at the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by a tall, handsome Negro whose brown face and hands contrasted dramatically with the shining white of his alb. The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity...