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...Smith, Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Lawyer Francis Patrick Garvan, the four U. S. Cardinals, ten archbishops and ten bishops were among the distinguished Catholics invited to attend the dedication last Sunday of a handsome church in the suburbs of Detroit. Those who accepted beheld a Norman stone edifice blessed by Detroit's Bishop Michael James Gallagher. What made this ceremony notable was that the church is one of the few parish churches in the U. S. maintained on a layman's estate, perhaps the only one in which lay Catholics...
...rolled into a siding and out popped Clara Bryant Ford, self-effacing wife of Henry Ford. Far from exploited by the Groups, who made clear that she was not identified with their movement, Mrs. Ford quietly attended meetings, lunched with Dr. Buchman and the most important of his followers, beheld a documentary Group film called Bridge Builders. Two days later she departed, thus ending rumors that her husband was to arrive in the company of Harvey Firestone, whose family have been active in Group work...
...robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
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...subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes of the American Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology but also old copies of National Geographic and Pearson's Magazine...