Word: ind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seymour, Ind., elderly Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Rogers, trapped in their rooms while the rest of the household was off to a church social, burned to death...
...Prussian colonel, he might today be commanding an army under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. His widowed mother brought her children, including eight-year-old Walter, from Flatow in Prussia to the U.S. to be near an uncle in St. Louis. After she remarried, the family settled in Madison, Ind. Walter's adolescent ambition was to be a naval officer; his mother would not let him apply for appointment to Annapolis. "She was afraid for me on the water," he explains now, at the far side of the world's greatest ocean...
After the great race, Dodds hardly heard the barrage of congratulations. "I must catch a train," he said, "I'm really excited - I'm to preach a sermon tomorrow at Goshen, Ind." Now, the man who prefers gospel teaching to mile records joins Torrey Johnson's Evangelistic group in Los Angeles - the town where another dashing character won lasting fame as an evangelist: the late, white-robed Aimee Semple McPherson...
What percentage of the people of Boston are Roman Catholics? Last week The Pilot, official publication of the Boston archdiocese, reported the startling figure: 74.3%. Percentages in other cities, as compiled by Fort Wayne, Ind.'s Bishop John F. Noll: New Orleans, 66; Providence, 57; Detroit, 46; St. Louis, 43; Chicago, 41; Philadelphia, 29; New York...
Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...