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Sirs: TIME'S reporting of the Shepard award to Evangelist Harry Ironside [TIME, Dec. 14] is of particular interest to those who knew this outstanding Fundamentalist during his years in Oakland...
...James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy is a small bronze statue awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union to the U. S. athlete who "by his performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners...
Germaine G. Glidden '36 was winner of National Amateur Singles, holder of the Intercollegiate Title, and winner of Gold Racquet Award...
Announcement of the prize award was made last week while Dr. Ironside's work was on the presses. By the terms of the contest it was a "scholarly, up-to-date, popular treatise" written from a conservative standpoint, Mrs. Shepard being a stout Fundamentalist. Called Except Ye Repent, Dr. Ironside's broadside against sin and irreligion states its thesis thus : "To repent is to change one's attitude toward self, toward sin, toward God, toward Christ." Reason why Harry Ironside forgot the American Tract Society's prize contest was that last summer he spent...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...