Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
...Manhattan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph F. Flannelly issued an admonition to be read at each of the seven Sunday Masses in St. Patrick's Cathedral: "We note with alarm and regret the growing custom of holding parties in business offices on the days immediately preceding Christmas. We caution the faithful against such parties for the following reasons: 1) these parties ignore the sacred character of Advent, which is a time of becoming preparation for the coming of our divine Savior; 2) the days immediately preceding Christmas are invariably days of fast and abstinence . . .; 3) at many of these parties...
...blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith, but its every line and highlight was placed precisely right...
Effective Procedures. The council's first president: handsome, 60-year-old Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which post he was elected in 1947-one of the youngest men ever so honored. A longtime leader of the ecumenical movement in the U.S., Brooklyn-born Yaleman Sherrill seemed a natural choice to head the new superagency. Vice presidents at large: Mildred McAfee Horton, World War II commander of the WAVES, onetime (1936-49) president of Wellesley College; Abbie Clement Jackson, executive secretary of the African Episcopal Zion Church Women's Home and Foreign...
Shot put--won by Wilson (H); 2, Blair (BU); 3, Montuori (N); 4, Ray (H). Distance: 45 feet, 11 1/6 inches. Polevault--won by Mello (H); 2, Barbosa (BU); 3, Lown (H), Bishop (BU), and McLane (N) (tie). Height: 13 feet. High jump-won by Barwise (H); 2, Mazzocca (N); 3 Palmieri (BU); 4, Baker (H). Height--6 feet, 3 1/2 inches (breaks Harvard record). Broad jump--won by Mazzocca (N); 2, Geick (H); 3, Mello (H); 4, Jenkins (BU). Distance: 22 feet...