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...Died. Luren Dudley Dickinson, 84, God-fearing Michigan Republican, seven times Lieutenant Governor, onetime Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
...subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...
...Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
...busy riding Michigan's Epworth League circuit that he could no longer get back to Charlotte on Sundays, pious ex-Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson (81) announced regretfully that he would have to give up the Bible Class at the Center Eaton Methodist Church over which he had presided regularly for 55 years-never more regularly than when all he had to do was run Michigan...
Though granting that sin still lurked in such "adjuncts of the devil's back yard" and "citadels of hell" as Michigan's drink spots, godly, 81-year-old retiring Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, addressing an exaugural message to the State Legislature, drew the Legislature's attention (and Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's) to the fact that "God Almighty has a place and power in Michigan's State administration as never before...