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Although the word is new, the theory of Urban Renewal is as old as New Lanark. At heart it is only the proposition that slums are not the only response to the demand of industrial society for concentration of population. Behind the statement lie two facts...
Another guinea pig now in the Bethesda center is 24-year-old Robert Brantner (Brethren) of Lanark, Ill. In metabolism studies he is being kept on a rice diet in an effort to make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also...
Author Lewis doesn't let him have an easy time. Aaron falls half in love with a girl he meets at the Missionary Home, Selene Lanark, "all vigor, speed, tautness . . . She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ... Her eyes had the tint of black glass . . ." Presently he discovers that Selene is a half-breed, that her father is a rich trader living near Aaron's Mission of Bois des Morts in Minnesota. When he gets there, Aaron finds how much there is to do before...
...such incidents and characters The God-Seeker is compounded. Aaron comes to know and fear tough Caesar Lanark, falls half in love with Huldah Purdick (while Selene is away), argues with a suave Catholic missionary, becomes friendly with Black Wolf, an Oberlin-educated Indian who is trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself...
...dictated the last 50 pages of her book just before death came. Last week her body was buried in the village cemetery of Lanark, Scotland, far from husband Addon and daughter Dawn, who had been waiting in Malaya for her return. Sybil's epitaph came from Whitehall's Colonial Office: "She was the Edith Cavell of Malaya...