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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, more than a month after announcing his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his private Ambassador to the Pope, the President had cause to stop, look and listen. Representatives of 15,000,000 U. S. Christians (Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists) let their uneasiness be loudly heard. The National Lutheran Council, representing two-thirds of 4,867,124 Lutherans, formally objected to the Taylor appointment. Meeting for the first time since the President's announcement, the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches (24 denominations) approved the appointment in so far as it is "strictly temporary...
...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...
...score of bigwig outsiders, deadlocked on some, were turned down by others (notably Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur H. Compton). Last week, after an angry hour and a half, peace, as it must to all squabbles, finally descended, and Howard Bevis was elected as Ohio State's seventh president...
Jack Benny was chosen top comedian for the seventh successive time; Fred Allen second; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy (the people's choice in many listener surveys), third. Benny's Sunday-night program for Jell-O was voted tops, too, with Information Please second...
Other editors' "musts": Guy Lombardo's orchestra (Jukebox Champion Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...