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...dawning last week a tired, chubby suburbanite was driving home through the outskirts of Detroit. In front of the Methodist Church at Farmington his eyelids dropped, the front wheels fluttered, the car curved, careened, crashed into the back of a parked truck. So died a rootin', tootin', shootin', hell-for-leather buckaroo -radio's Lone Ranger. As founder of the five-year-old Lone Ranger Safety Club, he had broadcast many a strong appeal for careful driving...
...Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Washington and Houston, almost everyone agreed that the Mission was a real success. In Houston, for example, overflow meetings "reached all classes, especially important business executives," and one Methodist pastor "has had to add an extra Sunday service to take care of the crowds" since the Mission left. In Washington the drive was particularly valuable in rounding up churchgoers recently arrived from other cities...
...score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian); 1,945 others damaged (1,100 Anglican, 448 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed...
Commission members include Methodist Theologian Georgia Harkness, Union Seminary's Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Harvard's William Ernest Hocking, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, the International Missionary Council's Abbe Livingston Warnshuis, the World Council's Henry Smith Leiper, Industrialist Harold Hatch, ex-President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Secretary and spark-plug is Dr. Walter Van Kirk, of the Federal Council's Department of International Justice...
Galesburg, Ill. is giving a lead in interdenominationalism. The new pastor of its big First Presbyterian Church is lanky, homespun Christie Swain-who until last month was minister of Galesburg's smaller Emmanuel Methodist Church...