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Eight bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church gathered together last week for the sacred act of laying on of hands. The place: All-Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. The occasion: the first consecration in the U.S. of an Oriental bishop. Episcopal bishops are usually consecrated in cathedrals, but China-born Rt. Rev. Quentin K. Y. Huang, who studied for the ministry in the U.S., had deliberately chosen the tiny (300 communicants) church at Santa Barbara. Reason: for several years it had been the only guaranteed source of financial support for relief work he directed in China...
...Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who hit the front pages in the '30s by marrying Heiress Barbara Button, rose from his latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and successors were assured of an imposing domicile. For a permanent home for Ambassadors in London, the U.S. accepted a gift from dime-store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
...once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can. Cartoonist Jeff Keate, however, shares Gagman Arnot Shepperd Jr. of St. Louis with several friends. Gagman Richard McCallister of Newtown, Conn. has been a dependable source of gags for Helen Hokinson, Robert Day, Barbara Sherman and George Price. The gagman's usual cut: 25% of the artist...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...