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...service arranged especially for Harvard men, Goodwin B. Beach 07, president of the Harvard Club of Connecticut, will unveil a pew end of carved Harvard scenes at the vesper service in the Trinity College chapel on Sunday. Carved by John G. Wiggins '12, the pew end was donated by a group of Harvard graduates in and around Boston, and will be added to those already in place in the chapel...
...public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
...reveals itself to any practiced architect for what it is. Unlike the U. S. Congress or the French Chamber of Deputies, the room is not constructed with aisles so arranged that any member may leave his seat, ascend the tribune and manifest himself. Instead, Moscow Soviet Delegates sit in pews. Their pew seats have arms which fold up to admit them, then snap down into place. They are not locked in, but might as well be. For an individual Delegate like Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson to manifest himself in opposition is all but impossible. In practice the Moscow Soviet always...
...Satan attends morning service at a fashionable church with a tycoon who is the principal pew-holder, consequently gets away with some very questionable behavior...
...Ponts is Wilmington, where they own the only daily newspapers in town. Lately the du Ponts' Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (circ. 55,000) needed an executive editor. Du Pont headquarters got in touch with the person who knows most about available editors-Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher. Editor Pew had just the man, his old friend William Latta Mapel, a big, brawny, bespectacled fellow ten years out of University of Missouri School of Journalism. For five years "Bill" Mapel had been director of journalism at Washington & Lee University. He was president of the American Association...