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...duty with the C. C. C. This tour of duty lasted until 1942 when he was called to active duty with the Army and sent to the Chaplain School at Ft. Ben Harrison, Ind., as a student. At the completion of the course Chaplain Keller was sent to the 85th Division at Camp Shelby. In a very short time his influence was felt through the Division establishing himself, beyond a doubt in the hearts on the enlist- ed men as "the men's chaplain." This very successful field of work was cut short, all too soon, for Chaplain Keller...
Carter Glass sat carpet-slippered and ailing before a log fire on the glass-enclosed sun porch of his Lynchburg, Va., home. On Monday he had celebrated his 85th birthday.* On Wednesday a new Congress convened without him. The Senate's cantankerous grand old man was too ill to go to Washington to take what may be his last oath. The Senate adopted a rare resolution and went...
Birthday. George Bernard Shaw: his 85th; in England; celebrated by the announcement that he was writing a book to be titled Everybody's Political What's-What...
Among the shops and cafes that crowd the sidewalks of East 85th Street, Manhattan, the Little Casino Bar Restaurant at No. 206 was barely noticeable. Men & women came and went with a great air of having nothing to do but listen to the juke box playing soft German tunes. Richard Eichenlaub and his plump wife placidly drew beer, placidly dished out Wiener Schnitzel. One day early this week, Herr Eichenlaub suddenly disappeared...
Birthday. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League, who said: "I'm confident this movement will be successful during my lifetime"; his 85th...