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Thirty-six years ago Louis Eckstein married Elsie Syndacker, a dark, handsome University of Chicago girl, picked out for him by a Chicago woman in whom he had confided his wish to marry. Pretty Mrs. Eckstein never cared much for opera, but with devout admiration for anything her husband did she attended Ravinia every night so long as he ran it. Mr. Eckstein left her about $1,000,000. was reputed to have given her five or six million more before he died. She has been deaf to all appeals to revive Ravinia Opera, feeling that no one could...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
Among rich Catholic laymen, private chapels are not unusual. John Jacob Raskob has one at Hartefield Manor in Maryland; devout Mrs. Nicholas Brady has chapels in her homes in Rome and Manhasset, Long Island. But according to Canon 1205, Section 2 of the Roman Catholic Church, only "popes, royal personages, cardinals, bishops and abbots'' may be buried inside a Catholic church. As his church began to rise, Layman MacManus asked, and got, permission in the form of a papal rescript granting him and his family the extraordinary right to be laid away in it. The MacManus church, called...
...literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion," he started an indignant fluttering in literary incubators that has not yet died down. Poet Eliot, now a naturalized British subject, a scholarly editor (The Criterion), even more highly regarded in his foster-country than in the U. S., a devout member of the Church of England, is a puzzling phenomenon. Last week, when he published his Collected Poems, readers were curious to see what he had left...
Besides pigeons, the church bodies in charge of the two-year Emergency Peace Campaign (TIME, March 16) had a prime ally in 77-year-old George Lansbury. This Christian Socialist is a devout Anglican who lately remarked: "I get tired of being told what a nice, good fool I am." Nice, good "Old George" fought against conditions in British workhouses, fought for women's suffrage, twice went to jail, attempted, as Laborite Commissioner of Works (1929-31), to realize his dream of a happy, beautified London. A single-minded and uncompromising pacifist, Lansbury yielded what crumbs remained...