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...High has said, the people are waiting for a return to the pulpit of the man who will give them a few kicks ... but the theological schools don't train them that way any more. . . . ROBERT L. WENDT...
Prescription. In Chicago, Dr. G. L. Apfelbach reported better fishing luck after he hopped up his worms with Benzedrine...
...chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He was elected national commander-a post which pays $10,000 plus $40,000 in expense money-by acclamation...
Chicken & Cake. Last week, this monotony dissolved in a round of official parties. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge...
Died. The Rev. Paul Dwight Moody, 68, onetime president of Middlebury College (1921-42), ex-senior chaplain of the A.E.F., son of the late famed Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; of a heart attack; in Shrewsbury...