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...merger was anything but Newton Grove's idea. Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, a Virginian by birth, ordered it in a letter read from the pulpits of both churches on April 19. The tiny farming community has been in an uproar ever since. "Why did the bishop do it?" asked 74-year-old John Monk, nephew and namesake of the founder of Newton Grove's first Catholic church, and plenty of his neighbors agreed with him. They petitioned Bishop Waters, and many of them said they would take their worship elsewhere...
...stations and newspaper offices heard an angry buzz from viewers. "That fight set boxing back 400 years," protested a fan in Pittsburgh. In San Francisco a man shut off his TV set because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything...
...Rifle the North seemed to be winning an engagement. There, on the screen, was Gary Cooper, obviously a hero, and he was wearing Blue! Soon, however, Cooper's elongated syllables marked him as no son of New England or Middle West. The truth came out. He was a renegade Virginian who had resigned his West Point commission only to reaccept it in time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous Yankee colonel...
CARL WESLEY MCCARDLE, 48, journalist, to be Assistant Secretary of State in charge of "public affairs," i.e., press relations. A West Virginian, graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, onetime student of law at Temple University, McCardle is the gregarious chief of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin's Washington bureau. An old hand at political and diplomatic reporting, he has long been trusted by the incoming Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles...
...honor of Pocahontas. British and American flags hung side by side in the chancel last week, and another old Virginian, Lady Astor, helped to inaugurate it as "a symbolic shrine of Anglo-American relations...