Word: coffining
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...Jayvees: Stroke, Filley; 7, Chanler; 6, Felt; 5, Ober; 4, Hanson; 3, Coffin; 2, Stuart; bow, Cox; cox, Pettite...
...Coffin's doctor mildly advised against such a trip. His wife thought it would be fine-"provided I come along." Dr. Coffin packed. Said he: "Heaven is just as" near India as Connecticut...
Heaven watched over Dr. Coffin through India, the Philippines, China, Siam and Egypt. In 15 cities he delivered all or part of his series of five lectures on "The Self-Disclosure of God in History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running him competition. He and equally energetic Mrs. Coffin endured a schedule that sometimes called for three or four lectures and two banquets a day; 36-hour journeys in dirty train coaches; chancy bucket-seat rides in rickety aircraft. On one occasion, engine trouble brought Dr. Coffin's plane down...
Once Preacher Coffin collapsed in the pulpit with intestinal flu, causing a flurry of transpacific cables when the incident was reported in the New York Times. Once an attack of dysentery forced him to hand over his lecture script to his wife. But by & large, Dr. Coffin thinks his trip went off smoothly...
Caught in History. Christians in Asia and Egypt found Presbyterian Coffin an alert, venerable and charming American. How did he find the state of the Christian world? Said he last week...