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...York lamp posts were cluttered with too many signs. He drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB for No Trucks or Busses, MT for Merging Traffic, ERD for East River Drive and QMT for Queens Midtown Tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Institute of Technology, Founder Massey is a kinetic, athletic Toronto socialite who worked in the shops and harvest fields of the family company before becoming an official in the Toronto factory. He is reputedly worth $1,000,000. A practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey appeals to youth, in a direct, personal manner. The enrolled class now numbers some 2.400, has outgrown four meeting places. Broadcast every Sunday, it is undenominational, open to all men. Radio mail streams in, addressed to "The Reverend-The Doctor-Very Reverend - Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Masses to Massey | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...fewer still are regarded as "regular fellows" by their classmates. In Princeton's Class of 1920, however, was a Canadian preacher's son whose popularity was immense, yet who surprised few of his friends when he was converted to "Buchmanism" the spring of his senior year. Erdman ("Erd") Harris was an exuberant cheer leader, a powerful swimmer, a talented composer of Triangle Club scores (Julius Caesar, Isle of Surprise). He ranked high in studies, too. His bright, bubbling nature continued as engaging after conversion as before and his post-graduate religious work on the campus was extremely successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For 21 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Some Erd Harris questions and Erd Harris answers: Can You Choose Your Job Wisely? You must determine your ability- the. thing you can do best; find something in which you have an interest, something useful, something marketable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For 21 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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