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Autos. In the driver's seat of United Automobile Workers of America is erratic Homer Martin, who has steered his union to contracts with all the major motormen save Henry Ford. That ex-Preacher Martin is a better evangelist than administrator is equally unfortunate...
Gerald B. Winrod, tract-selling Wichita evangelist whose "intolerance" (TIME, Aug. 1) would have made a splendid target for Democratic Senator George McGill this autumn should Mr. Winrod have been nominated. With two other Republican candidates up for the Senate, about 300,000 Republican votes were cast, or 140,000 more than Kansas Democrats have cast in their hottest Senatorial fights...
...most spectacular operations developed in the last few years is the transplantation of fragile corneas from the eyes of dead men to the eyes of the living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed...
...newspapers. Numerous normal politicians were running for office but the only candidate whose name the rest of the country heard was Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod. He is 39, a grey-eyed, deep-voiced radio spellbinder from Wichita, with black hair like William Jennings Bryan's, an evangelist whose congregation is "the entire United States and Canada." Because it looked last week as though Mr. Winrod might win the Republican nomination for Senator from three less colorful opponents, Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee clarioned...
...leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...