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Mark F. Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times delievered the annual Oration, "The United States as a World Power" and British poet Stephen Spender read a new poem, "Speaking to the Dead in the Language of the Dead" in the Senders Theater festivities...
...pieces in the final. Hogan won 7-&-6, collected first prize ($3,500) and left for Fort Worth with a motorcycle escort sendoff. The way he felt about the P.G.A.: "You have to finish first or second to make it worth the effort and then you're dead for weeks afterwards...
...Seattle, representatives of the northern Presbyterian church (called the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) met for their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected...
...president of a local geriatric society "shooting for a record . . . What is his conception of his place in society, of his duty to his patients? Who is he to deny the old man the pleasure of passing the reviewing stand . . . saluting the colors, and, if God is good, falling dead at the long anticipated climax of his life? Who is any man to presume to prolong life at the expense of the sacrifice of every bit of its romance, bite, and color...
REVOLUTION IN THE CINEMA-screamed the Paris-Presse. Le Parisien Libéré went one better: MOVIES IN BLACK AND WHITE ARE DEAD...