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...Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy was inspired to announce that he would be baptized at the revival's end along with his own new converts...
...last week President Pusey was able to announce the beginning of a whole new "chapter in the history of the Divinity School." Partly through the efforts of a group of alumni, and partly because of the interest shown by Episcopalian Pusey himself, the school is already at the halfway mark of the $7,000,000 endowment goal set in 1952. More important, it has taken on a new mission. Once known for a methodical sort of scholarship inherited from the theologians of 19th century Germany, it now intends to become an active leader of organized Protestant religion. To that...
Recently, Mansure walked by the GSA building and was shocked at "the unsightly appearance caused by the lack of uniformity in the position of the Venetian blinds." To avoid offending the esthetic glances of tourists, he decreed that all Venetian blinds in his building would be arranged just so (halfway up in the daytime, all the way down at night), promised "periodic inspections . . . to assure compliance." Then he found that many Government workers were writing on only one side of paper. His next order: memos will be typed or printed on both sides. As every bureaucrat knows, writing on both...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
...Ueda. In the closing years of the 16th century, in a time of civil war, a country potter sees his chance to get rich quick selling pots in the city at war-inflated prices. The trip to the city, through a countryside full of marauding soldiery, is insanely dangerous. Halfway, the potter sends his wife and son back home alone. In town the pottery sells merrily, but no sooner is the money in hand than the potter begins to dream of luxury...