Word: evan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of their own experiences in World War I, and of British brethren in World War II, one small group has been meeting weekly in Manhattan since mid-July, to coach their fellows. This week the War Resisters League (over 17,000 strong), headed by hulking, 6 ft. 4 Evan W. Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed as a C. O. in World War I), conducted its first New York public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus...
Star of the revival was shovel-mouthed, small-voiced Joe E. (for Evan) Brown, who has played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast...
...football team, awards a loving cup to the university's most valuable football player every year, frequently presides over athletic banquets. Two years ago he was taken in as a regular member of Zeta Psi, to which his sons Joe Leroy and Don Evan belong, went through the traditional initiation. He is the only nonstudent ever to get a letter from U. C. L. A., an honor that has impressed him so much that he usually wears his blue "C" on a sweater when he idles about his house. After Brown's auto accident last year...
...appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World War I's wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe's needy. Without neglecting its work in the U. S. (among West Virginia...
...Margaret Soule, Wellesley Richard M. Bloch Betty Hinkle, Brookline Edward J. Broderick Mary Ferguson, Clinton John C. Bullard Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-Charles John M. Bullitt Helen Sarazin, Cambridge William E. Bunce Frances Fuhrer, Bradford Junior College John P. Burnham Jean Drake, Winchester Curtis A. Bush Ruth Thomas, Wellesley Evan Calkins Jean Fitz, Brookline Sherman B. Cawley Dorothy Warren, Beaver Jean de Chadenedes Ethel Frye, New York John B. Chadwick Alice Ely, Farmington Vincent J. Charte, Jr. Edith Barnes, Middleton Charles F. Choate Josette Daley, New York William W. Cleveland Esther Stevens, Simmons John MacG. Cochrane Harriet Hayes, Simmons Richard...