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...wife converted him to the Baptist Church. In the records of the Manhattan Central Baptist Church there is a notation for 1914: "Deacon Charles Wilson has done excellent service in managing the lantern for the lectures Sunday evenings. Our facilities are not of the best and it has taken much knowledge and patience, but the work has been well done." Deacon Charles Wilson also started a Sunday School for Chinese children. Years later, in Bridgeport, Conn., he conducted a Baptist Young Men's Forum. Even now, in Washington, WPB Vice Chairman Charles Wilson often stops in at church...
...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however...
Able ex-Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, finally got around last week to the only act which has given him real pleasure as Price Boss. He resigned. His successor: OPA's lantern-jawed No. 2 man, Businessman Chester Bowles, who has been running OPA smoothly and with a free hand since July...
...mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide lectures, and fair weather performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the vicarage lawn...
...Lantern-jawed Army Air Forces 2nd Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 23, reported missing on duty "in the South American Area," was nine days later found safe in a Brazilian jungle. In Ann Arbor, where the onetime Michigan halfback had hula-hipped himself to All-America fame, his parents offered special masses, got many a wire from Tommy's worried admirers. Anxiety ended, his anxious mother promptly cabled her son ". . . just so he'd know that we knew he was safe and weren't worried any more...