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In Midwest farm towns, there would be programs at the community churches, with youngsters reciting while mothers prompted from the front pews, or pageants of boys in the turbans and robes of the Three Wise Men and girls with the gauze wings of angels. Midway through the evening a man...
The audience sat in wooden pews. The orchestra, 63 "professors of music," of whom only a lordly few wore evening dress, played standing up (except for the cellists). The most presentable of the professors acted as ushers, wore white gloves, carried long white wands. The main piece on the program...
The Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting...
Now on exhibition at the Vatican is the model of a combination church and air-raid shelter, built of cement with a V-shaped roof, camouflaged, complete with altar, pews, first-aid equipment. Dry comment of the papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano: "An unexpected development in the history of Christian art...
» The 13 most potent family groups' holdings were worth $2,700,000,000, comprised over 8% of the stock of the 200 corporations: Fords, $624,975,000; Du Fonts, $573,690,000; Rockefellers, $396,583,000; Mellons, $390,943,000; McCormicks (International Harvester), $111,102,000; Hartfords (A...