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...another $45 job as a model and sketcher for Townley Frocks, Inc., then owned by Henry H. Geiss, a harassed veteran of Seventh Avenue's fashion campaigns. A tragedy provided a break. Less than a month before the spring showing in 1931, Townley's designer drowned while swimming; it was up to Claire to turn out a collection. Says she: "I did what everybody else did in those days-copied Paris. The collection wasn't great, but it sold." Flushed with confidence, Designer McCardell began to experiment. But often her designs were too advanced for the market...
...Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips P. Elliott, a Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor; Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Methodism's Zions Herald; and septuagenarian Lutheran leader Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler. Dr. Trexler demanded the company of his personal physician...
Most notable address at the Third World Convention was given by Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler, 58, of Manhattan. Said he: "The church is too much in the care of older men. The church becomes too conservative and is prone to lose the sympathy of the younger generation." Urging that the church outdo Communists in pronouncing against war, Dr. Trexler deftly drew a parallel to make conservatives squirm: "Christ, seeing young Communists helping to cast out the devil of war, would again say, Forbid them not, as he did when John said, Master, we saw one casting out devils...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y., at a conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
...valuable new photographic instrument has lately been purchased by the Observatory. It is known as a Ross-Geiss lens and will be used for photographing and charting the sky. It was constructed especially for this purpose, and will cover a larger field than any other instrument at the Observatory. Owing to its wide range it will now be possible to chart the sky every night, whereas previously this has been possible only three times a month, and consequently many phenomena have been unobserved. The instrument has already been put up and is now ready...