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...Clifford '41 of Peace Dale, Rhode Island and Arthur H. Northrup '42 of Indianapolis, Indiana received the Samuel Sewall scholarships which were founded in 1698. The Mary Saltonstall scholarships were given to Joseph P. Lyford '41 of Westport, Connecticut and Edward J. Pols, Jr. '40 of Newark, New Jersey. These awards were established in 1733 for "Juniors and Seniors in Harvard College (always dissenters...
Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
Promotion of Jim Grunig, 200-pounder, to the third short guard post on the Red Jersey squad was announced yesterday afternoon, which brings the total number of the select group to 34. The fact that Penn is bringing a bargeload of behemoths to the Stadium may have had something to do with Harlow's move in adding more avoirdupois to the Varsity...
...split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference whether it "is still the Methodist Protestant conference, or is it now a Methodist conference?" Informed that it was the latter, the 16 arose, marched out of the room singing Blessed Assurance, whose chorus goes...
Last week Dr. Ernest Gladstone Richardson, new Methodist Bishop of New Jersey, appointed new pastors to 35 of the 37 "vacant" M. P. pulpits. He pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...