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...Illinois had stopped being kids. The four who returned to school wore battle stars and three were married. Phillip, who had broken five conference records in 1943, had been a Marine lieutenant at Iwo Jima. Smiley fought in the Battle of the Bulge; 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around (he scored a breathtaking 969 points as a senior at Centralia, Ill. High...
Against Pittsburgh last week the Whiz Kid guards-hefty Gene Vance and Papa Jack Smiley-bossed the backboards. Before they were replaced by substitutes, Andy Phillip hit for eight points and skinny Ken Menke got ten more. Down went Pittsburgh, 58-31, to become victim No. 3. Illinois was out to become the Big Nine's best again, but would have to get past Iowa and Wisconsin to make...
Sacramental Shock Troops. It is these changes in rural Iowa that have set 20-year-old Ruth Greenwood and others like her on their pastoral rounds. Last August, when brisk, cheerful Rev. Gene Carter, 30, took charge of the Warren County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
...Young Gene Carter takes firm issue with last month's 70-page report of the independent Committee for Cooperative Field Research, which suggests that the remedy for rural Iowa's religious anemia is to reduce the number of churches. It seems to him that there are not too many churches but too few ministers. Says he: "I've never seen an area where the church was closed and the whole congregation goes elsewhere. A lot of the people just quit going to church...
...luxury that people were unwilling to pay for. In empty nightclubs and ballrooms their tricky arrangements were being heard mostly by the waiters, who were appreciative but unprofitable listeners. In the past eight weeks, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Les Brown and Jack Teagarden decided to disband. Gene Krupa and Jimmy Dorsey cut salaries. This week Woody Herman gave...