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Last week the Christian Herald issued its annual statistics of U. S. church membership, compiled by Dr. Herman Carl Weber, expert religious statistician. Total 1937-38 membership was 63,848,094, an increase of 754,138 adults. Of the total U. S. population, 49.9% were affiliated with a church, as compared to 19.9% in 1880. Biggest U. S. denomination: the Roman Catholic, with 21,322,688 members (15,492,016 over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church...
Abstract & Shiny. At the Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure...
...York, is the newly installed president; Milton I. Goldstein 3L, of St. Louis, vice-president; James A. Moore 3L, of California, Maryland, secretary; W. Walker Lewis, Jr., 3L, of Middletown, Ohio, treasurer; and Jerome C. Hofmayer 3L, director. Two second-year directors are Charles E. Schaaf, of Cambridge and Herman Gross, of Staten Island, New York...
...have preserved a state of truce. This year, in return for staying out of Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary, the Federation besought Governor La Toilette's aid for the Progressive candidacy of Representative Thomas Amlie for the Senate. Having earmarked the Senate seat for his faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when...
That same year, in Minneapolis, a golf-zealous grain broker named Herman Berg forbade his frecklefaced 13-year-old daughter Patty to play any more football (she was halfback on a boys' team) gave her four of his old golf clubs; taught her many a trick of the game before she outgrew her middy blouses...