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...Cleft Ma with the Meat Axe?", an original skit written and executed by the Grays Hall Boys, will be one of the highlights of the program, the show includes a number of original song hits by Oliver Filley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Follies of '45" Will Include Skits, Songs | 2/19/1942 | See Source »

...only hospital in the U.S. devoted exclusively to people who stutter, lisp, mumble, use baby talk, are tongue-tied or have cleft palates* is Manhattan's National Hospital for Speech Disorders. Last week the hospital, founded by Dr. James Sonnett Greene, celebrated its 25th anniversary, announced that it had treated a total of more than 38,000 children and adult patients (70% without payment), had helped most of them to normal speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Stutter? | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Their successor is husky, cleft-chinned, 50-year-old Dr. L. (for Lawrence) Wendell Fifield, for the past 14 years pastor of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church. Downtown churches, such as his in Seattle, have special, tough problems. Dr. Fifield tackled his with the same zeal which, during an earlier pastorate in South Dakota, earned him a State handball championship. Well-liked by men as well as women, he reduced his church's indebtedness by $116,000, brought nearly 1,600 new members into the congregation (now over 2,000). He built a radio audience all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plymouth to Plymouth | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...ingratitude of princes, and the frowns of Providence, Columbus may have sought consolation in the memory of those bright November days of 1493, the fleet gaily coasting along the lofty verdure-clad Antilles with trade-wind clouds piling up over their summits and rainbows bridging their deep-cleft valleys; of the nights when he lay quietly at anchor in the lee of the land with his gallant fleet all about, stars of incredible brightness overhead, and hearty voices joining in the evening hymn to the Blessed Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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