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...roomy white stucco house with sweeping lawn and two-car garage, on a quiet street of suburban New Rochelle, 35 minutes from Manhattan, a tall (6 ft. 1½ in.), jowly clergyman was reading to his four-year-old granddaughter Anne. In the kitchen, his wife Hilda was baking a cherry pie. It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry is perhaps the most influential leader of world Protestantism...
...suppose because she was a strange, offish person, too. She sang soprano solos, was quiet, not especially pretty, and she was going with another fellow at the time. We would go to the opera together. I remember asking permission to kiss her -it was granted, to my surprise." Hilda Drewes and Pastor Fry were engaged in 1926, and married the next year. They have two sons, Franklin Drewes, a Brooklyn pastor, and Robert T., a Manhattan lawyer; daughter Constance is married to a Lutheran pastor...
...fourth ballot Fry was president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Without a word, he rose from his chair and went upstairs to the hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other for a long moment, and Hilda Fry said quietly, "I'm sorry." Said Fry to a friend last week: "I have always suspected that of those who voted for me in 1944, half thought they were voting for my father and half for my grandfather...
...HILDA GIROUX Lansing, Mich...
Last week Hilda's case rekindled interest in Lina. Now 24, short, stocky and reclusive, she works as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who performed her Caesarean. Lozada gave her an education, is now putting her son through high school, reports: "Lina's boy is normal and intelligent. He wants to take up electronics...