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Born in Idutywa, South Africa, David Mdodana was taken to the U. S. in his youth by Baptist missionaries. They sent him to several Negro universities-Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, Selma. He celebrated 25 years of work by donning a white satin robe stitched by women of his church, preaching 25 of his best sermons consecutively in 17 hours. Some of the sermons: The Prodigal Son, The Beam and the Mote, Be Still, Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands, Where Are We Spiritually, Educationally and Socially?, The Soul's Anchor, The Borrowed...
...Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy with the former, suggested that Dr. Colston, brother-in-law of Johns Hopkins' famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young, try the drug on his gonorrheal patients. Also quick to action. Dr. Colston summoned young Drs. Henry Clay Harrill and John Essary Dees. They went to work only two months ago, promptly saw enough to warrant announcement of one of Medicine's longest strides this century...
...January of 1604 there gathered under the roof of the magnificent royal residence of Hampton Court a convocation of clerymen to discuss "things pretended to be amiss in the church." James I, just down from Scotland, had not yet proclaimed to the English people his anti-Presbyterian notions, and the Conference was called to work out a compromise between High and Low Church parties...
...King, scenting an attempt to undermine his god-given authority in a proposal that a synod be substituted for bishops, broke up the meeting in a huff, and threatened non-conformers to "harry them out of the land, or worse." Yet that Hampton Court Conference goes down in history as a high water mark for the English language, for before the King had sent the delegates packing, a plan had been drawn up for a new translation of the Bible...
...death of his friend, the immortal Bix Beiderbecke. Louis waxed enthusiastic about Benny Goodman. He admires him not only as a clarinet player but as a white band leader who has had the courage to hire Negro artists such as the pianist Teddy Wilson and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, who are to be heard in the superb recordings of Benny Goodman's quartet...