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...Meantime, at the other end of Tennessee, in Memphis, a colleague of Mr. Cowan was doing likewise. Lean-&-hungry-looking Rev. Howard ("Buck") Kester, secretary of the Fellowship, appeared at a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, preached a "funeral sermon" over a "coffin" (a black cigar box) representing the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers Association (C. I. O. union), from which S.T.F.U. had broken off (TiME, March 20). Said "Buck" Kester: "I have racked my memory for something good to say about the deceased, but I have found none...
...when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Bowman, Ga., Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ginn named their sixteenth child Quaver Ginn. Other Ginn children: Brodie, Corbin, Dorcas, Elmira, Fezzan, Gregor, Hassie, Ithmar, Jessie, Kester, Lisbon, Manson, Nelson, Ornice, Pascal...
Lady Dedlock. It is hard to make plays out of Dickens. Nonetheless, famed Margaret Anglin thought quite correctly that Bleak House contained the material for a drama and she ordered Paul Kester to trim it into shape. This he tried hard to do; and Actress Anglin played his piece in the provinces, gradually improving it. Last week she thought it was fit for Broadway, and played it there...
Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Innocuous, sentimental, pleasant claptrap of the days of Charles II, written by Paul Kester, revived for Laurette Taylor. Brocade and periwigs, exclamations of " Oddsfish! " and "me lud" and "la!", a couple of "big scenes," Laurette Taylor charming and well assisted...