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...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, onetime Y. M. C. A. worker who founded the Oxford Group, a First Century Christian Fellowship, "God is a millionaire." Missing from headlines since their vast house-party at socialite Stockbridge, Mass, last June, the popular evangelist's team of disciples recently has been touring fashionable eastern resorts preaching spiritual placidity and divine guidance. Simultaneously last week they arrived back in the headlines and at the summer headquarters of U. S. millionaires: Newport...
When the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman wish to emphasize the fact that the Oxford Groups include all sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...
...around a good deal by his travel-loving parents-to Mexico, Belgium, England, to Washington, and tidewater Virginia. In England he had a year at a private school, afterwards prepared for Harvard at the Choate School. At Harvard, where he was in the same class (1916) with Authors Robert Nathan and Robert Littell, he wrote for the literary magazines but was distinctly not one of "Copey's" (Professor Charles Townsend Copeland's) boys. Dos Passos was constantly on the point of leaving Harvard but never quite got around to it. Though he graduated cum laude, he thinks...
Divorced. Robert G. Nathan. 42, poet and novelist (One More Spring, Road of Ages); by Nancy Wilson Nathan, his second wife; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...