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There was little audible response to the confessions. The audience sat quiet in the stuffy, humid chapel. Here & there, listeners sat with their heads in their hands. Patiently through almost all of it waited the Rev. Edwin Johnson of Seattle's First Mission Covenant Church, who, as leader of the Evangelistic Week, had been scheduled to address the group the night it all began. At last, President Edman gave him his chance at the microphone. "We've seen a probing of the heart today such as we've never seen before," said Johnson...
...hard place to live; in the humid, tropical summers, men tucked newspapers under their shirtsleeves, made masks of them for their faces to keep off whining swarms of mosquitoes. For years, Glenn had racking seizures of malaria. The McCarthys had little money for cures -or anything else...
Since mid-June, the heat-humid, tropical, inescapable-had pressed down on great areas of the U.S. In the region around the Great Lakes, in New England and the middle Atlantic coast, the hottest summer on record was in the making. It had been equally hot or hotter in the South and parts of the Southwest, where such weather is more normal, but not more bearable. Last week, temperatures pushed even higher...
Most listeners find it hard to decide what it is about 39-year-old Violinist Spivakovsky's playing they like most. His technique is flawless, and his tone is big and humid. Some wonder if he gets both his tone and technique by holding his bow-arm elbow so high; orthodox violin teachers tell students who go to his concerts: "Listen but don't look." Wherever he gets it, Tossy's violin has power...
Come All Ye Faithful. Though fewer pictures are in production, some things are just like the good old lavish days. At Paramount, Cecil B. DeMille is deep in his $3,000,000 Technicolored Samson and Delilah. At MGM, the huge set with swimming pool is kept at a tropically humid temperature for the swimming sequences of the new Technicolored Esther Williams picture (with dance numbers by Busby Berkeley...