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There are several skid row citizens around every Sunday to start the all rolling. Feeney has names for all of them: "Wallpaper Willie," Mustachioed Louie," "Frothing Joe," "Foamin' Roman," "Muggsy Malone," and "Benny Balloon." His group of devotees stand around him in a circle. The crowd, and the sight of this small, black-frocked, white-haired man standing above it, attracts others, and soon, there is a sizeable mob of people listening intently, whether they agree or not. Feeney is there every week, no matter the weather, and so is the crowd...
...Atlanta, Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of the city's largest church, said: "In my 31 years as a pastor, today's congregation was by far the most sober and serious that I have ever seen." The gloom, the doubts, the confusion, the feeling of helplessness to reverse the disaster in Korea could be misinterpreted; there was no panic, and though there was a desperate scurrying for any possible hopeful solution, there was little talk of appeasement. The way ahead would be hard, and everybody knew it. It had to be traveled, and the nation knew that...
...Louis Linder, always kind, helpful, and generous to the Yale men, took over the management. Students began to refer to the new Temple Bar location as either "Mory's" or "Louie's." But in 11912 expansion of the business district forced out the alehouse. A group of alumni, under the name of Mory's Association, Incorporated, bought the present white colonial building on York street as a food-and drink club for Yale men, and moved in Louie, the old clock, the books, the tintype photos, and other reminders, of "Quiet House" and Temple Bar days...
...confused with the Rev. Louie De Votie Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention...
...also took his stand against Defense Secretary Johnson and the workings of the unification act, was summarily fired as Chief of Naval Operations last October, he was offered another post: command of U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Last week, in a blistering letter, mild "Uncle Louie" Denfeld told Navy Secretary Francis Matthews he was turning down the job and announced he was considering retirement from the Navy. Wrote Denfeld...