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Among the promising candidates for this year's All-America is Bill Bofenkamp, "Rooter king" at Minnesota. Like most of his confreres, Bofenkamp is small and wiry (tall cheerleaders went out of style when acrobatics came in), spends two afternoons a week rehearsing with his assistants, has a repertory of a dozen yells, a dozen stunts. Back flips and tumbling are touchdown stunts. Skits are put on between halves...
William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Episcopalian, longtime editor of The Witness, longtime secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. With three bishops among its executives, the C.L.I.D. is respectable enough, but its critics have found it more complacent toward Communism than toward Fascism. After the Russo-German pact, The Living Church (Episcopal weekly) called upon Secretary Spofford to declare himself anew. He did so in a letter which the magazine published, and answered editorially, last week. Excerpts...
After these pro-Russian sentiments had appeared in print last week, Bill Spofford was irritated by the invasion of Finland. To protect Leningrad, Russia needed Baltic bases, and Finland might have handed them over quietly. Whether the C. L. I. D. (some 3,000 members) would take the same line when it meets in January, he did not know...
Commonly considered a Communist-steered organization is the American League for Peace and Democracy (see p. 16), of which Bill Spofford is vice chairman, and another clergyman chairman: Methodist Dr. Harry Frederick Ward, Union Theological Seminary professor. At its latest meeting (held after the Moscow-Berlin Pact), the League condemned Nazi and Fascist aggression, finessed Russia. Last week, without condemning Russia, the League mousily proposed against it the same sort of U. S. war embargo it had loudly urged against Fascist aggressors...
...Week, and Dr. Walter Palmer Anderton, new chairman, is a prominent representative of the old school. Not that the platform of the Progressives was revolutionary, for they offered no clear-cut, constructive program. Few of them agree on the merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement to improve medical care of the people...