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...Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location -wealthy, hoity-toity Park Avenue...
...likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...
Whites in Salisbury, N.C. (pop. 4,000 Negroes, 14,000 whites) had not wanted Eleanor Roosevelt to come there to address a convention of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America. But last week Eleanor came just the same -her face aglow, her thoughts confused, her intentions motherly...
...President Joseph C. Robbins of the Northern Baptist Convention, Douglas Horton, Secretary and Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs as John R. Mott, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edgar DeWitt Jones, Roy G. Ross, Daniel A. Poling...
...arts of "oratory, pulpit eloquence and pamphleteering." It was rich in symbolism, which "tends to dominate folk expression." It was rich also in a sense of evil. The Salem witch burnings were "cumulative folk-obsessions." Jonathan Edwards "induced tortuous introspections." Charles Wesley and the "dark fire" of his fellow Methodist, George Whitefield, kept the nation incandescent with revivalism for a generation. Calvinism, a scientific bent and poverty, gave early U.S. art a flair for abstraction...