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...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
...scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of classic myths (Venus and Adonis, The Triumph of Bacchus), his poised, devout religious paintings...
...Hague one day last week, a devout Calvinist (with Buchmanite leanings) stepped up to a microphone and radiorated. Said Wilhelmina, Queen of The Netherlands: "In our present time the very first need is that of a radical renewal in the life of every individual. This only can be the fruitful source from which flows the necessary strength of the realization of practical and constructive achievement without which our world of today will go to ruin...
LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...
...Best, devout defender of the well-run insurance companies, attributed most of the crashes to bad investment judgment, rather than skulduggery. But he was able to point a striking contrast: during the period when 19 small insurance companies were failing, 14,000 banks great and small also crashed and indicated initial loss to their depositors...