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...ecumenist was born in the first year of it. His father was a lawyer in the Dutch city of Haarlem; the family name (pronounced fisser toaft) means "fisher at the head''-the chief fisherman. Willem-then called muis (mouse) for his thin, sharp face, but now nicknamed Wim-was the gayest of three brothers, excelling at hockey and tennis, and good, though not brilliant, in school. His father was shocked when Wim said he was thinking of becoming a pastor. "You will have a hard life, and I doubt if you'll like the salary...
...ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then. He married fragile-looking Netherlander Henriette Philippine Jacoba Boddaert, with whom he has three children, all now grown and scattered throughout Europe. "The problem of an international family is language," grins Wim. "When we get together, if the conversation begins in French someone will switch it to Dutch or German, someone else to English...
Greer Garson, Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
...fact that Messrs. Grace & Irvin flatly contradicted each other in their opinion of what would happen to the steel industry if the basing point system were disturbed. Mr. Irvin foresaw a dire collapse in steel prices, fearful mortality among small steel companies. Mr. Grace blandly declared: "Doing away wim the basing point system would increase prices through a decrease in competition...
...Episcopal Church, and particularly the most ardently Catholic portion of it, has reiterated times without number, its complete detachment in regard to the debate of the Fundamentalists and Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than between geometry and philosophy. There are, of course...