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...help the college celebrate, friends and alumni from all over the U.S. gathered last week in Berea (pop. 3,400). Governor Lawrence Wetherby of Kentucky was on hand, and along with Berea's President Francis S. Hutchins,* he happily climbed into a horse-drawn surrey to lead the big parade through the town. The main event, however, was the opening of a play called Wilderness Road, which was written especially for the occasion by Southern Author Paul Green. The play was in every way appropriate-a warm tribute to the builders of Berea who decades ago traveled down...
...took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar, but she gave that up officially (she still preaches there) to join the interdenominational religious staff...
...general sessions of the conference there will also be panel programs on topics of specific interest. One panel group, headed by Peter Grace, president of W. R. Grace & Co., will take up previous investment experience in Latin America. Another panel, headed by Professor Stanley Surrey of Harvard, will discuss tax factors affecting Latin-American investment...
...house in Long Island's Oyster Bay is now a national shrine. But on a windy March day in 1887, Sagamore Hill was just a large, rambling house young Teddy had built, with twelve bedrooms for foreseen eventualities. That March day Teddy brought his bride home in a surrey with a fringe on top; soon enough the eventualities came too. The house with its 80 acres was plenty of home, but not too much, for the two girls, four boys and their innumerable cousins. Teddy thought it was bully, and the children thought that their romping, happy father...
Lounging in an easy chair in the library of his Surrey estate, Britain's fireball sultan of the press, Lord Beaverbrook, who recently summed up his homilies of success in a book called Don't Trust to Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV in a chat observing his 75th birthday. The Beaver paid tribute to such old departed friends as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells, reaffirmed his 19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance...