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...largest Lutheran theological seminary in the U.S. (enrollment 778) is the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary-a well-planned scattering of college-gothic buildings and faculty homes on 71 green acres in Clayton, on the western edge of St. Louis. Last week the synod's board of electors announced that they had selected a new seminary president: the Rev. Alfred Ottomar Fuerbringer, 49. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), even-tempered Pastor Fuerbringer and Concordia will not have much trouble getting to know each other-his father headed the school and his grandfather helped found...
There were those in Longfield, Miss. who thought that Albert Clayton was getting too big for his britches. He was a hardworking, illiterate sharecropper who had cleared all of $43 the year before, and this year's prospects didn't even look as good as that. In 15 years he had been able to save nothing. His two kids were hungry, his wife Louella's Sunday dress was seven years old, and yet Albert had some mighty uppity ideas. Wanted to paint his shack white, something no Negro in those parts had ever talked about, much less...
...encourage Big Business is to let it alone. Lilienthal takes a different tack. He proposes that Congress pass a Basic Economic Act pro claiming its prime concern with "productivity and the ethical and economic distribution of this productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with the Basic Economic Act. Under its terms, "the legal test Bigness would have to face would thenceforth be whether the particular aspect of size challenged by the Government does...
...Clayton's young men, 23-year-old Dorman Curtis, was bitter. "Simpson," he said, "never had a chance. Just drive by his house and take a look. No water. Just ... the pump there on the main street. No light. He never went to school much. How would you have grown up if your old man had never worked, and there was never any money in the house for food or anything? If you didn't have a nickel for candy? Sure, Russ has been in trouble all along...
...This is a small town, mister," said the telephone operator in a voice of protest. "This ain't Detroit, you know, and we're all kinda upset ..." But last week Clayton knew in its heart what it had long denied: it harbored poverty, fear, meanness, and the base passions, too. Clayton would not be the same for a long, long time...