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...Good Thief. In Atlanta, after a watch and two rings disappeared from the Rev. George VV. Jordan's home, he held a special service at his church, gave his flock a fiery sermon on "The Sin of Robbery," later found the stolen goods on his doorstep...
...federation, once upon a time a source of public pride to "liberal" Methodists-as if it were a sort of vanguard of tomorrow's Christianity-has now become a subject of denominational embarrassment. It is a subject sure to be waiting on the doorstep when U.S. Methodism holds its General Conference next spring...
...platoon system is a chief villain in the mounting competition for football players, Dean Bender suggested. "Any good high school player," he noted, "might have 12 or 50 colleges camping on his doorstep. Scandals are the logical end product...
...drafting of Harvard's 18-year-olds. Wrote Mother: "Every weekend [my daughter] goes out with a Harvard boy 18 years old, and I say draft him and his kind, the whole lot of them, the quicker the better. Mothers . . . should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation . . . Put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...
More than half the letters came from Kansas and Missouri. A woman in Kansas City wrote "I don't blame (the mother) for not signing her name. If the truth were known, I expect, her darling daughter LURED those boys to her doorstep, with MARITAL DESIGNS, taught by her mother ..." A Lawrence, Kansas mother asked "if you propose this method for making a man out of an 18-year-old boy, what sort of a similar Gethsemane do you propose for making a woman out of your 18-year-old daughter...