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Ollerup Rally. A chill Danish dawn found Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman asleep in his room at the Hotel Gymnastik. Once awake, he lay abed for an hour "receiving the orders of the day from God." Per orders, Frank Buchman breakfasted with his jolly disciples, later made his way to the private stadium of Physical Culturist Niels Bukh for what he had expected to be the Oxford Group's GREATEST HOUSEPARTY. However, bad weather cut the attendance down below a measly...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this week Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was to hold a great meeting featuring the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian Parliament, and other members of the international team of Oxford Groupers who lately worked in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 14 et ante). And last week Groupers told the Press about one of their most spectacular conversions to date. A textile manufacturer of Rotterdam named Dr. Roessingh, said they, lost his fortune when England went off the gold standard. Turning his talents to invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts...
...other faith do good victuals play so big a part as they do in the faith founded and preached by well-fed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman. Any Oxford Grouper is at his best conversing politely, radiating earnest goodwill over a plate of food and a glass of plain water. Currently an International Team of 700 Groupers led by Dr. Buchman has been working in Geneva, lobbying spiritually at many a meal. Their efforts seemed to reach a climax when they visited the President of Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 23), but last fortnight that visit was out-climaxed when Dr. Buchman...
...Buchman, proud as a man may be who was a Pennsylvania Lutheran welfare worker before he became an international figure, arose and said...
...their redoubtable Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, the team included a one-time Scottish Communist, a French marquise, the Copenhagen tap dancer, the Bishop of Rangoon, an admiral, a British M. P., a daughter of the Governor of the National Bank of Egypt and a Burmese lady who told correspondents: "My name means cool, calm, pleasant mist." Between good dinners and spiritual lobbying in Geneva, Dr. Buchman took 50 members of his team on a flying trip to Berne. There in the Parliament House awaited President Rudolf Minger flanked by his cabinet...