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...Mention 'Lutheran' anywhere in America to this day, and the commonest memory association word is 'heresy.' " Thus, in a confidential letter to ministers of the United Lutheran Church in America, President Franklin Clark Fry reluctantly began to egg-walk his way last week through the issue raised by the heresy trials of three Northwest Synod members. The Rev. George Crist Jr., 31, and the Rev. Victor Wrigley, 36, had been convicted of heresy by a synod trial committee in not subscribing to certain articles of faith, e.g., the Virgin Birth, the miracles and the physical resurrection...
...clock his wife, Dorothy (they met at a Science church in 1918 in Shanghai, where her father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other culinary tastes are mostly simple. He likes steaks, roast beef and pudding, but also has a flaring passion for curry-derived from a four-year tour of bank duty in Bombay.) He is usually in his office by 8:45, works until...
Louse It Up. Pollard grew up in Butte, Mont., spent his teens as a horse wrangler and ham-and-egg fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program...
...Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Warner). On July 21, 1921, nine clumsy biplanes crossed the Virginia coast and rumbled out to sea like tired June bugs. Eight of them were loaded to limit with a 2,000-lb. egg of destruction. Below, on the deck of the transport Henderson, a crowd of U.S. admirals, generals, Cabinet members and Congressmen milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head...
Last week Cutler told the American Medical Association convention that the Government, by continuing to withhold the "indirect costs" of its grants, would "kill the goose that lays the golden egg of research...