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...retired Bishop of Oxford; of influenza and pleurisy; in London. A famed Anglo-Catholic, he long sought rapprochement between Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Bishop Gore proposed a federation of churches with the Pope as First Bishop, but he balked at Papal Infallibility. Though no Modernist, he scoffed at Jonah's Whale...
...Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg, Worcester, Mass., schoolboy; four girls, one of them-Anne Townsend of Greenwich-aged 13 and having her father with her as mechanic in her runabout; C. Phelps Stevens, whose trade nickname is Jonah because he usually gets the best times in the trials, then swamps at the start...
Rhymer gained a minute at West Point but in Haverstraw Bay, Woodworth caught him. When he passed the finish line at 155th Street, his average time for the distance was 41.9 m. p. h., course record for outboards. Second in his class, fifth in the actual finish was Jonah Stevens, lucky for once. Three other racers broke last year's time for the race...
...Author. Robert Nathan has written many books (11) for his age (37). Dark, quiet and divorced, he married again, lives in Manhattan, writes carefully and with difficulty. Says his friend and admirer Louis Bromfield: "He looks like his books." Among them: There is Another Heaven, Jonah, The Fiddler in Barly, The Woodcutter's House...
...casting lots to determine the guilty. This expedient, declared Professor Lake, has its modern counterpart in the casting of votes, whereby a question can be easily settled by taking the opinions of all those who know nothing about it Upon which, the Vagabond began to wonder whether, if Jonah were here today, even he would not shrink from walking the plank for the greater glory of the Demos...