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With that much accomplished, the convention turned to the perennial problem of unity among Lutherans. It dutifully approved two resolutions favoring union, but U.L.C.A.'s president, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, was not very hopeful. While deploring the "American Lutheran habit of living in fractions," he predicted that "prospects for any broad merger ... are likely to be deferred . . . probably for a full generation...
Since last year's Senate inquiry into his habits of dispensing various favors in return for an occasional home-freeze unit, Major General Harry Hawkins Vaughan, court jester and military aide to the President, has led a relatively quiet life. He has also curbed his old habit of making such public observations as "Winston Churchill is a garrulous old gentleman." Last week, just as people were beginning to ask "Whatever became of Harry Vaughan?", he reappeared briefly upon the scene...
...movie (Trio) adapted from three of his short stories, Somerset Maugham told reporters that his writing career was almost, but not quite, over: "If I think of an occasional little piece I will write it. When you have written for a great many years, it's a habit you get into and rather hard to break, and if I don't sit at my writing table each morning, I don't know exactly what to do with myself...
Husing also saw numerous fight "patterns" which evidently escaped the boxing writers. Perhaps his most objectionable habit, which he shares with a number of announcers, is the heavy-handed commercial: "The crowd roars its approval, as you'll roar your approval when you try Pabst beer." And, between rounds, "I'll bet they (the fighters) could go for some Pabst beer right...
...looking for a product that can be made for a dime, sold for a dollar, and is habit forming...