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...baby grew up, the church became an integral part of his home-town life. Man & boy, he attended services more regularly than most. His devotion was rewarded when he was elected to the vestry. Later (1928) he became senior warden...
...details as church finances (as troublesome to St. James' as to most small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee of two to draft a suitable note of thanks...
...Oxford group are A. H. Smith, warden of New College, Oxford; M. Platnauer, vice-president and fellow of Brasenose College: N. H. K. Coghill, fellow of Exeter College: T. H. Keeley, fellow of Wadham College: H. B. Moore, Brasenose, College secretary; and F. Gibberd, architect...
Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...
...firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...