Word: convertibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding, various well-wishers file by to tell her what an impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine Spy and of "brief, bluff, belligerent" Dime) to queer the marriage, convert the girl and be converted in turn. In the course of a little drunken midnight swimming in the nude, he teaches her that lots of nice people are human, she teaches him that lots of rich people are nice...
...middle distances seem fairly well taken care of, with Frank McKechnie and Ted Meredith in the 440, and Bill Young, John Dane, Henry Stewart, and Bob Brundage in the half. Brundage, a recent convert to the 880, leaves the broad-jump badly weakened. Leaders in a large group of milers and two-milers are Bob Jay, Charlie Robbins, Fred Bradley, Sam Worthen, Dan Jones, Tom McElligott, Wally Fenn, and John Sopka...
...years ago in Chicago St. Dismas came into his own. The Good Thief attracted the whimsical but devout interest of a convert to Roman Catholicism, Dempster MacMurphy of the Daily News. Orator, raconteur, ex-song-&-dance man, MacMurphy was a well-born Southerner who added a "Mac" to his natal Murphy simply because there were no MacMurphys in the telephone book. He made a fortune as a vice president in the Insull empire, lost it in the crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast...
Susan, a scatterbrained convert bubbling over with the Message, begins in the first act to meddle with the complex and questionable lives of her ultimately succeeding in running three of them. Convinced, after someone has made a joking confession, that she has the knack of conversion, Susan also sets about to rescue her estranged husband (Paul McGrath) from drink and to win the love of her daughter (Nancy Coleman,) The trio, without the aid of God, finally work out their problems and unite around a happy hearth. For the plausibility of this ending Miss Coleman, replacing, Nancy Kelly...
...Venezuela offered to give land for a Catholic college as soon as U. S. bishops furnish priests. On the other hand, South Americans resent U. S. Protestant proselytizing, deplore the fact that, instead of going after the pagan and the unchurched, U. S. missionaries (except the Episcopalians) attempt to convert good Roman Catholics to Protestantism...