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...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...
Nonetheless Dr. Harlan Paul Douglass who directed the China survey for the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry last week stuck to his conclusions-that after a century of evangelism China, with perhaps 400,000,000 population, has no more than 400,000 members of Protestant churches, perhaps another 400,000 Christians who belong to no congregation and 2,489,000 Roman Catholics; that Protestant Church membership has fallen off 50,000 to 75,000 in recent years. Declared Dr. Douglass: "Christians who combine the spiritual and the social are needed [in China], especially to plan and demonstrate...
...driving through Delaware at night this summer and find the highways glimmering with bobbing lights, do not mistake them for fireflies. They will be pedestrians. Last week Governor Clayton Douglass Buck signed a bill making it a misdemeanor for a citizen to tramp the highways after dark unlit by flashlight or lantern...
American Dream gets in its most heavy-handed propagandist licks when the contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...
Kirkland House Dr. Douglass V. Brown, Kirkland D-21: Monday, 11.30-12.30 o'clock; Wednesday, 2.30-3.30 o'clock. Professor J. T. Addison, Tuesday, 10.30-11.30 o'clock; Thursday, 9-10 o'clock...