Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial for "criminal conspiracy" at Kahoka, Mo. was Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, acquitted last autumn of having helped kidnap Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly in St. Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard...
...Home Abroad. Last autumn Frank Buchman held a swank revival meeting in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, featuring a prize European convert, President Carl J. Hambro of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). Last winter he and some of his young men sunned themselves in Miami. An active Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank...
Through the Massachusetts Village of Carvel, gay crowds pass every Saturday in autumn on their way to football games at Boston or New Haven. Kay Brannan watches them and sighs. Her family bores her. She yearns for more expensive things. One Saturday evening a handsome Boston socialite, young Dr. Bob Dakin* (Robert Taylor), sweeps up to the curb in his icecream roadster, takes her for a ride, gives her some champagne. Next morning, he emerges from an alcoholic haze to learn that he has married...
...Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court and finally chancellor of the diocese. A brilliant preacher, lie made the principal address when Désiré Cardinal Mercier of Belgium visited Philadelphia in the autumn of 1919. For 14 years Monsignor Corrigan has conducted what is believed to be the largest laymen's retreat league in the U. S., at Malvern, Pa., where last year 4,100 male Catholics prayed and studied...
...Irwin Boyle Laughlin was a career diplomat and onetime Ambassador to Spain. Philadelphia's Rev. Edward R. Laughlin is also a grandson. James Laughlin IV is the member of the Harvard Advocate board who was largely responsible for the ban placed on an issue of that magazine last autumn by Cambridge police. Great-Granddaughter Alice Denniston Laughlin is a stained-glass artist. And Board Chairman George McCully Laughlin Jr. was in step with the family tradition when he retired last week at 63. Then, for the first time in its history, Jones & Laughlin was left without either a Jones...