Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...Catholic Chaplain John A. Wilson had a narrow squeak when, riding the same road, he saw men waving their arms and stopped his car, jumping out. Wilson hit a ditch, saw dive-bombers a few seconds later score nearly a direct hit, demolishing...
...Mild-mannered Presbyterian U.S.A. Chaplain Major John K. Borneman, who served in World War I as an ace flyer, chats about a chaplain's typical experiences. Borneman, from Niagara Falls, carries cigarets, Bibles, toothbrushes to the front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...
...Father Duffy, World War I chaplain of the famed Fighting 69th, has a namesake in Bataan, Father John E. Duffy of Toledo, who received the decoration of the Purple Heart for "singularly meritorious action" when slightly wounded in action on New Year's Day. He celebrates Mass at the front on an altar of ammunition boxes...
...Another Catholic chaplain, Father Matthias Zerfas of Fond du Lac, Wis., has not shaved since the war started, now sports a heavy black beard. His corps commander has cited him for valor...