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Since Tennessee's Bishop A. J. Tomlinson died in 1943, the Church of God, which he founded, has been divided into warring factions.* One group, with national headquarters in Queens Village, N.Y. and a membership of 94,000, is led by Bishop Homer Tomlinson, 61. the founder's elder son. Another, called the Church of God of Prophecy, with a membership of 65.000. is run by Overseer Milton Tomlinson, the bishop's 46-year-old brother, who lives in Cleveland, Tenn. Last week, after several years of feuding over leadership of the denomination, the bishop arrived...
...give Princeton the edge today. Where once Caldwell brought over 30 giants, each assigned a specific phase of the game, now he has Captain Homer Smith, tailback Royce Flippin, and an average line. There are no McPhees or Brad Glasses on the Princeton line. Instead, there are people named Milano and Torrey, and they may be as good as people named Bill Meigs and Tim Anderson, but they are probably no better...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...
Royce Flippin, Princeton sophomore, is tops in total offense with 567 yards, with Clasby second on 529 yards. Clasby has average 42 yards in punting to 40.5 for Pennsylvania's Walt Hynoski. Phil Mathias of Yale leads in rushing with 295 yards, seven ahead of Princeton's Homer Smith...
...whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...