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...Author. Born at Clifton, Tenn. 53 years ago, Thomas Sigismund Stribling has never wandered far from his spiritual home. Tall, baldish, professorial-looking, with a prognathous but benevolent jaw, he started out to be a schoolteacher, failed as a disciplinarian. Though he looks like a bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trilogy Finished | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows that many people, particularly the elderly, have very active salivary glands and that they always drool into the cup; furthermore some men have long moustaches which dip into the wine- truly disgusting facts."-Rev. Dr. Clifton Macon, New Rochelle, N. Y. This week The Churchman quoted a layman who was shocked to find the common cup in use at a church school during a diphtheria epidemic. In the same publication a "distinguished physician" declared: "Suppose a person kneeling at the communion rail has syphilis. Suppose four other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Common Cup & Intinction | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...Clifton Ferdinand Kann '37, of New York, N. Y., was made assistant Freshman manager. Kann prepared for Harvard at the McBurnie School. Samuel Howard Donnell, Jr. '37, of Peabody, who prepared at Andover, was appointed manager of the Second Freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENTINCK-SMITH ELECTED MANAGER OF 1937 BASEBALL | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

Charles S. Kelley '36 (L) defeated Justin J. Thackara '36 (W) 3-2; Laurens D. Dawes '35 (L) defeated Clifton F. Leatherbee '34 (W) 3-1; Milton Street '35 (W) won by default; Jonathan R. Keim '34 (W) won by default; Charles A. Thorndike '35 (L) won by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

Other officers elected were: Vice-President, Griffeth Bowen Washburn '35, of Greystone Park, New Jersey; Secretary, Victor Horsley Kramer '35, of Clincinnati, Ohio; Treasurer, George Clifton Edwards, Jr. 1G.; and Committee-man-at-large Raymond Dennett '36, of Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOMAS QUINN ELECTED HEAD OF LIBERAL CLUB | 2/16/1934 | See Source »

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