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...Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr. Keegan's assistant after the ceremony: "He told me that...
Norman Makin is a teetotaling Methodist lay preacher at home but he gave his guests wine and brandy while drinking orange juice himself. All week Norman Makin, chairman of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, was a busy, genial host. Even so, he had an uneasy time...
Like many Unitarians, tall, wide-eyed Van Paassen was born in another faith,* like many he came from a family of clergymen. As a youth in Toronto (whence his family migrated from The Netherlands) he studied theology, was so fascinated by preaching that he chose the Methodist seminary because it offered opportunity for field work. But World War I interrupted his religious studies, sent him to France as a volunteer in the Canadian expeditionary force. Later, as roving correspondent for the late great New York World, he gained the high-powered inside information on European politics that made Days...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...
...innocent party" may remarry, but only with the approval of his bishop. Elliott's second and third marriages (to Ruth Googins in 1933 and Actress Faye Emerson in 1944) were performed without episcopal sanction, the first by a retired Congregational minister, the second by a Methodist pastor in a glassed-in observation station at Grand Canyon, Ariz...