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...Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally approve (and with more warmth than they usually...
From Sian 1,500, including 300 girls, set out on foot. They trudged along the cavernous bed of the Han River, threaded dense forests, climbed by foot trails aver precipitous cliffs of the Tsingling Mountains. Chinese military authorities supplied them with food: rice, a few vegetables, hard wheat cakes. Three of them, a professor and two students-died of typhoid. But on the tenth day, after a 180-mile journey, they reached their destination, Hanchung. There and in nearby Chengku they started new universities...
...Malicious tongues have it that they are sometimes overzealous in conforming to the Catholic ritual; and it is related that the late Cardinal Hayes warned a blundering altar boy that his faux-pas might soon be adopted by "the brothers of St. Mary the Divine." But the Episcopalian fathers aver their complete freedom from the stiff-necked formalism of the Papist Church...
Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
Deelaring that the great intellects of the past have been almost all Christian believers and that "the intellectual quest ends in God," Dean Matthews said "the majority of great modern thinkers would aver the decisive words...