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...announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
...signal before the game, $8 for another in the evening. Sun Oil Co. shelled out $100 to televize Lowell Thomas and his news, Procter & Gamble paid the same to put on Truth or Consequences and Lever Bros, another $100 to give their television of Uncle Jim's Question Bee...
...Azuma Maru's hoped-for cargo was held up by one U.S. citizen's ire. Edward Jobbins, who manages the Wilson-Martin division of Wilson & Co., Inc. (meats) and is busy as a bee making fatty acids for the manufacture of various articles of defense, read in his Philadelphia paper one morning that the Azuma Maru had arrived in port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He failed to see why, when the East Coast was facing a shortage of petroleum products-because oil-carrying tankers had been transferred to the British-an Axis power...
Stuart has been looking forward to running her two papers since her father died. Left to her in trust, the Bee and Register have kept to a middle course under able, greying General Manager Andrew Alfred Farley and troubleshooting, middle-aged Secretary Sarah Colleen Powell, who stands guard during press interviews to curb Stuart's impulsiveness...
...weeks ago Stuart told the bank trustees that the 75 Bee and Register staffmen deserved a 10% raise. The bank balked. Stuart said it would look better for the bank if paid now because otherwise she would give the raise the minute she took over. She won. Headstrong as they come, she says: "I'm doing all right with the farm and I intend to run the papers the same way. ... My dad once said that if you want to do a thing, you can, and that's my motto...