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Last year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report guardedly approving Birth Control (TIME, March 30, 1931). Though the report was signed by John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., many Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath. Declaring that full time should be taken to consider "the weighty question of whether we wish to continue participation...
Cheshire House puts out Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with etchings by Bernhardt Wall ($18); Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher ($15) with a frightening frontispiece, other wood-engravings by Abner Epstein...
Twenty-two of the 28 members of the Federal Council's committee?including Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Dr. John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, President Albert William Heaven of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and George Woodward Wickersham?approved the use of contraceptives...
...over 70 and with 50 or more years' practice. Six were nonagenarians. Giving them all a public party in Boston promised good publicity for the project. Last week four dozen oldsters managed to assemble. Of those who could not attend four died in March, four last month. Dr. Abner Orimel Shaw, 93, of Portland, Me., could not travel because he "hurt his knee gardening," six days before the party...
...endurable. Lamon Coe knew that Heaven was his father's farm in Zerbetta, Ohio, and therefore tolerated an exile cluttered with boxing in Los Angeles, acting in cinema, selling sporting goods in Boston, and finally life in the big city with his refined Cousin Abner. New York's smells, noises, intellectuals, palled on Lamon until he discovered Frankie de Lima (she had adopted the name of her Ohio home-town). Lamon basked in the glow of her vivacity, until sudden catastrophe brought him home to Zerbetta with the girl who "understood...