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...shek can snatch time to go home from China's everlasting wars, he goes to the world's daintiest First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small, closely guarded red brick...
...good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight...
...devout Catholic Bruning's last duties in Rome was to pay a formal call on the Pope. It was successful but slightly disorderly. Somebody removed Chancellor Bruning's silk hat from the German Embassy just as he was about to leave for the Vatican, leaving in its place a tiny topper that balanced precariously on his domelike forehead. At the Vatican the Swiss Guards were wrongly informed of the hour of his arrival. Parti-colored men at arms were still scurrying about the courtyard of San Damaso when the German automobile drew up. Foreign Minister Curtius, who is Protestant, paid...
...Sunday devout Catholic Brüning attended mass at Notre Dame des Victoires, listened attentively to a sermon on the advantages of peace. Messrs. Stimson and Mellon left for London...
Last January Col. Procter, a devout Episcopalian, added $240,000 to a previous gift of $60,000 to the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. Income from that augmented fund is to increase the salary of Henry Wise Hobson, the diocese's new bishop coadjutor whom Col. Procter and his co-religionists brought from All Saints' Church at Worcester, Mass. (TIME, May 12, 1930). Bishop Hobson presided at the children's research clinic dedication last week...