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...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), well-poised bishop on the rostrum rapped for order and the 700-odd members settled down. So this week, at the 100th annual Conference of the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, 71-year-old Bishop Alexander Preston Shaw became the first Negro to preside full-time over a conference of white Methodists...
Wild Oats. In Brooklyn, Mosha Byron, reprimanded for shooting craps in his 100th year and arrested for illegally practicing medicine in his 102nd, was hauled into court again, this time for cursing a neighbor, was ordered by a doubting judge to go home and get the birth certificate to prove...
...morning of the 100th day when the name-calling and table-pounding died away in Detroit's Sheraton Hotel. It should have been a time for rejoicing, for Walter Reuther's C.I.O. United Automobile Workers and the Chrysler Corp. had finally settled the second longest and the second costliest strike in the U.S. automotive industry.* But everyone was still too mad to cheer...
Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, received a commission last week to write a major orchestral work to be used to mark the 100th anniversary of the University's of Minnesota...
...year 1950, midpoint of the century, is also the 100th anniversary of the landing of the English sparrows in the U.S. Finicky ornithologists regard the immigrants as neither sparrows nor even especially English. They are weaver finches, originally from Africa, and have made a great success in life by attaching themselves, like the dog, the bedbug and the rat, to the fortunes of man. They colonized Europe long ago, swarming in its cities paved with nutritious refuse. In 1850 they reached Brooklyn...