Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After concerts he usually hurries out of the greenroom, nods to the waiting knot of well-wishers, then pops into his black Oldsmobile sedan for a dash home to Brush Hill Road in suburban Milton (the former home of the late Bishop William Lawrence). Only when he reaches the sanctuary of his second-story study, with Roger, his chauffeur-valet of 20 years' service hovering around him, does he seem to draw a relaxed breath...
...Joyful Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). Christmas show starring Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, Maureen O'Sullivan and others. Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The Bishop's Wife, with Tyrone Power, David Niven, Jane Greer...
...York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, allowing the Methodists no chance to feel too complacent, told them that two important threats are facing the church: Communism and Roman Catholicism...
...regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it. When either the Roman Catholic Church or the Communist Party, acting upon its belief in these matters, seeks to deny to us either religious or civil liberty, our own freedom is involved, and it is not a part of tolerance to submit to such denials until at last our freedom passes...
...Boston, Roman Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Gushing also saw a menace-in Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization which Bishop Oxnam helped found two years ago (TIME...