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...religious activities at college "consisted of playing pool at the Y.M.C.A." (he explains: "Hamilton's undifferentiated Protestantism didn't appeal to me"), there was never any doubt where Franklin Clark Fry was headed. It was Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, where his grandfather Jacob had been professor of homiletics. Here he underwent his first and only spiritual crisis. "Inadequate instruction was the problem. I already had a firm grounding in the faith, but the defense of it presented by the professors didn't begin to match the caliber of the archaeology instruction...
When Emperor Nero received a shipment of mountain snow for his royal ice cream in a state of slush, he executed the general in charge. When Baltimore Milkman Jacob Fussell first began mass-producing the ancient delicacy in 1851, he started a U.S. industry that today leads all the world. But though Americans down about 3 billion quarts of ice cream annually, the U.S. Government-unlike Nero-has never had any control over the quality of the industry's product. Last week the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a code to regulate everything from quality "French...
...Civil Service Commissioner (under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland), then put in two years as police board chairman of New York City (1895-97), booting out corrupt cops, promoting the worthy and rewarding the brave, making headlines by prowling the slums with his reform-minded friend Jacob (How the Other Half Lives') Riis. Wrote T.R.: "I am dealing with the most important, and yet most elementary, problems of our municipal life . . . There is nothing of the purple in it; it is grimy...
BREAKING POINT (92 pp.)-Jacob Presses-World...
Banned by the state constitution from seeking a third two-year term as governor of South Dakota, hard-shelled Joseph Jacob Foss, 42, Marine Corps fighter-pilot ace in World War II (26 kills and the Medal of Honor), announced last September that he was retiring from politics, looked toward a comfortable job in private industry next January. Last week Joe Foss changed his mind, opened a campaign for the First District congressional seat held by George McGovern, South Dakota's first Democratic Congressman in 18 years. Reason: Foss was persuaded to run by 50 leading South Dakota Republicans...