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...honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings, tricorn hats and fawn-colored breeches, played 18th-century music. One of the stories-doubtless apocryphal-circulating about the Hale homestead...
Through the sparse wasteland south of the Grand Coulee Dam last week crawled a motorcade with 59 ranking Protestant churchmen and churchwomen. They were studying "planting" 22 new churches in an area where even houses are now few & far between...
...past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported Alabama's (Negro) Tuskegee Institute last week: "The better element of whites is against [the Klan] and Negroes are no longer afraid...
...Hardly Wait." There was nothing stuffy about Peter Marshall, even when he thundered from the pulpit against liquor, sexy magazine pictures, and Hollywood divorces. He wore tweed jackets, polo shirts and bright ties, chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups...
...York's Bishop William Manning received a $500 check from a group of churchwomen, banked it until war's end. Then it will help to pay for his most famed work-in-progress: Manhattan's vast Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Divine...