Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel James Stewart got a movie star's welcome in Manhattan when he returned from two years' Air Forces service overseas. At 37, he still looked boyish, but his hair was greying. "I don't care what color it gets," he said, "as long as it stays in." He planned to go right back to cinemacting-in "anything except a war picture." Asked whether he preferred British or American girls, Jimmy looked pained. Said he: "I don't consider myself qualified...
Three months ago, the FBI arrested six critics of the State Department's pro-Chiang policy toward China, charged them with conspiracy to violate U.S. espionage laws (TIME, June 18). A fortnight ago, three of them were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury; the other three, including John Stewart Service, for twelve years a Foreign Service officer for the State Department, were cleared. Last week 36-year-old, sharp-faced John Service had his Washington job back. He also had two memorable letters...
...Chicago's North Side is the headquarters of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church's small (nine members) Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, founded in 1931. It is also the rectory of St. Thomas Eastern Orthodox Church and the home of a Stewart-Warner production control clerk. The clerk's name, as written on his doorbell card: "The Very Reverend Cyprian Matthiesen, Society of St. Basil...
John Frederick Matthiesen (Cyprian is his patron saint) is an ascetic-looking, 29-year-old Eastern Orthodox missionary who was raised a Missouri Lutheran. For four years he has been working full-time in the punch-press department at Stewart-Warner (artillery fuses), at $30 a week. Purpose: 1) to support himself, his mother and brother; 2) to earn money to build a church...
...fall through by racing away to a dying friend). But with nonworshipers, he was utterly cynical. He named his riding horses after the men he had bribed; he "bought" the entire South African press ("There is no reason why one should not be properly reported"). When Irish Nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell complained that his divorce had made him unpopular with Roman Catholics, Rhodes exclaimed: "Can't you square the Pope...