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Sirs: [The death notice of Bishop Warren Akin Candler-brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler-TIME, Oct. 6] reminds me of an incident of the early "Gay Nineties"* in which Dr. Candler figured before he became a bishop, [about the time] Coca-Cola was invented...
Died. Bishop Warren Akin Candler, 84, oratorical champion of Southern Methodism for over 50 years; brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler; in Atlanta. With a $1,000,000 gift from Brother Asa, he expanded little Emory College into a university, was its chancellor from 1914 to 1921. As active Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1898 to 1934, he was a leader in the fight against unification of his own church with Methodist Protestants and Northern Methodists, commented when unification won in 1939: "It's done now. I'm going to keep...
Oldtime Song & Dance Man Harry Jolson (Hirsch Yoelson.) sued his brother Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) for $25,000 in back pay, earned at $150 a week, said Harry, by not using the name Jolson in the theater...
...Asa S. Bushnell, executive director of the Association has notified Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth of the Northern Division, and Penn State, Georgetown and Princeton of the Southern Division, to start play at 10:30 o'clock to decide the championship of each division, and the finalists for the title round which will be held on Saturday over the same course...
...encyclopedia of food by a diet expert who loves to eat was published last week by Dr. Asa Crawford Chandler of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. Dr. Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins...