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Most Southern churchmen are theological, economic and political hard-shells. Eleven years ago one of the oldest and richest churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., Third Presbyterian, called a Scottish-born-and-burred clergyman who was anything but shellbacked-Rev. Thomas B. Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons...
...Born 33 years ago in New York City, Wald attended New York and Columbia Universities. From 1932 to 1934, as a National Research Fellow, he served in the laboratories of some of the most famous biologists of Europe. Five years ago Wald came to Harvard as a Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, and the following year secured his present position in the Biology Department...
...Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
...Newark, N. J., Sidney A. Fortel, 36, linen-supply dealer who makes a specialty Mr. Sidney A. Fortel wishes to announce that on the seventeenth or eighteenth of June a Son will be born to Mrs. Sidney A. Fortel
Henry's real name was Henrietta (Handel thrown in for musical effect). Born into a family of amateur tooters and strummers in Melbourne, she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College there, later studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. Writing was a sidetrack which turned out to be her main line. She took the masculine pseudonym, she says, because she did not want allowances made...