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...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...
...biennial General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches met last week among the placid elms, college and white. Colonial meetinghouse of Durham...
Then the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, at its biennial convention in Minneapolis, urged its 536,000 members to give "full support to the war efforts of their country with their substance and, if necessary, with their lives." Reason for this shrill small voice: the anti-Quisling stand of their mother church in Norway has convinced Norwegian Lutherans in the U.S. that militancy is the best policy...
Gladys Schmitt was born in Pittsburgh in 1909, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she began a close study of the texts of Proust and Mann. The Gates of Aulis, which took her five years to write, is the winner of the biennial Dial Press Award "for an outstanding novel that concerns itself realistically with the problems of adjustment which face young men and women of America today." Last month Gladys Schmitt went back to Pittsburgh to spend a year in research, preparatory to writing a novel about King David...
Engaged. The Right Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, the Anglican Church's "Flying Bishop" of the Arctic; and Elizabeth Nelson Lukens, associate headmistress of The Agnes Irwin School near Philadelphia; in Philadelphia. "Archibald the Arctic" (his signature) makes biennial flights to visit his scattered Eskimo flock...