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Despite accelerated and distorted schedules, curtailed pre-medical training, and other war-born irregularities, the graduating class is one of the largest the Med School has ever graduated, and also the youngest in average...
...largest Commencement procession in University history will begin its march through the Yard shortly after 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when more than 2250 students in all departments are slated to to receive degrees in the 297th Commencement Exercises...
...year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected Moderator of the northern church: the Rev. Jesse Hays Baird, 59, president of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, third largest seminary in his church...
...leases, he got his chance. He helped organize Gulf Oil Corp in 1907, became its president two years later. By 1929, Gulf under William Mellon had netted an average of $25 million a year for nearly a decade. Since then it has grown into the world's fourth largest oil producer (total assets: $839 million), with holdings scattered from Venezuela to the Middle East. For the first quarter of this year, the company reported a whopping profit...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...