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Seminaries also compete-fiercely-for "name" theologians; Austin's President David Stitt complains that "it's worse than the used-car business." Perhaps the most ambitious talent-raiding these days is done by Chicago, which recently has signed up Paul Tillich from Harvard. Langdon Gilkey from Vanderbilt. Charles Stinnette from Union, and Joseph Haroutunian from nearby McCormick Theological Seminary (although it lost Lutheran Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan to Yale...
...accommodate profitable piggyback traffic, improve its yards, and buy additional automated rail controls. Though the two roads plan to keep separate their rates, routes and sales forces, they will consolidate ticket offices and terminals in cities from Chicago to Washington. Best estimate of able B. & O. President Jervis Langdon, 57, is that all this will save the B. & O. $44 million a year, eliminate 730 (jobs...
...merely a matchless Mr. Malaprop -who but Jimmy could describe an elephant as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" and really seem to mean it? But look deeper. His comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown a comedian who, caught tiptoeing past the Big Top in broad daylight with a stolen elephant in tow, could throw up his hands and say with almost mystical fervor: "What elephant...
First year man Jeff Kirk and Bill Rogerson scored points in every meet and are considered bright prospects for varsity competition. Teammates Roger Smith, Harold Tzeutschler, and Langdon Burwell were also what McCurdy termed "potentially top flight runners...
...back 15 minutes on the Capitol Limited" says Langdon, "and when it wasn't enough, we slowed it down another 15 minutes. We've put 30 minutes back on the schedule of the National Limited (St. Louis to Baltimore), and engineers on these long-distance runs are under instructions not to try to make up time on unavoidable delays." The extra time permits a smoother ride, and a chance for the passengers to get a look at where they are before they have passed it. Other railroads are not inclined to put such a high premium on comfort...