Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alvin I. Reiff '47, directing the drive in Lowell House, announces that the Bell-boys sales have zoomed to $2500 in bonds and $300 in stamps in a last-week spurt. A breakdown of the sales shows that 85 percent of Lowell House has participated in the campaign...
...author of this prediction in the current Atlantic Monthly is a brilliant maverick Episcopal priest, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell. Four out of five servicemen, says he, are "valiant young pagans" who "know little and care less about Christianity. . . . They will come back sure that the churches have small influence on American life . . . ready to do little more than to give those churches a chance to prove that they have life, vigor, sincerity, pertinency...
...church which is "only a polite club of nice people with a faint flavor of well-washed piety" can offer convincing proof, concludes Dr. Bell. "The veteran does not need readjustment soothing syrup, coddling, flattery; he needs to be told . . . that if he has any real manhood in him he will regard America as something more than a glorified factory, movie house, ball park and corner drugstore. He needs churches which make it clear that they care about him . . . that the things that really matter ... lie beyond his untrained cognizance . . . that things seen are temporal, relative, secondary; that...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...
Last week influential, controversial Drew Pearson announced that on Dec. 12 he would write his last column for Roy Howard's United Feature Syndicate. On Dec. 13 (his 47th birthday), Pearson planned to go to work for independent Bell Syndicate, whose stable of writers includes Emily Post, Dorothy Dix, John Kieran. Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence...