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...Stockholm, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen recently conducted a debate between teen-agers on "Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out Waugh's indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
...perhaps yachtsmen are lucky. Among the rare disasters are: The father of W. A. W. Stewart, one-time commodore of the potent Seawan-haka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I., was lost with a party in a hurricane off the Florida coast about 25 years ago. The Liev Eriksson, from Norway to Newfoundland, with a party including William Washburn Nutting was lost off Iceland in 1924. Alain J. Gerbault, famed French tennis player, bound around the world, is two months overdue in the South Sea Islands, believed lost. Last week cables reported a minor mishap when the yacht...