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Died. Charles Robert Crisp, 66, long-time (1896, 1913-32) Democratic Representative from Georgia; of complications following a paralytic stroke; at Americus...
That statement was voiced by the Mother Church's incoming president, Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwell Tomlinson. Daughter of Americus Vespucius Tilton Cadwell, she was born in Wisconsin some 60 years ago, went to Boston where she met and married a Christian Science Church trustee. Rev. Irving Clinton Tomlinson, now 76. Grey and radiant, Mrs. Tomlinson has performed many a "remarkable healing," still maintains a Christian Science practitioner's office in Boston's Back...
...obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...
Families of preachers are rarer in the U. S. than families of polo-players or bankers. But Rev. Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1823-94), descendant of British settlers in Tidewater, Va., set a record. He gave to the church four sons, four grandchildren, one great-grandson. Of the sons, two are dead. The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, longtime Bishop of Brazil and father of "Big Tui," was tall, handsome. It was customary for graduates of Virginia Seminary to hand their diplomas publicly to a girl, but for his there was such competition that he gave it to his mother...
...easy, gracious. He makes a good forceful speech, never too long. He smokes cigarets. No blind partisan, he is respected by Republicans and Democrats alike lor his intelligence, his parliamentary fairness, his industry. Outside Congress: In Washington he lives modestly at The Highlands Apartment, also has a home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little beside his Congressional salary, now cut from $10.000 to $9,000. He is married, has one son named for his famed father. He attends the Methodist church, has few sports or diversions. Feeling that he has outgrown the House...