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...Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. who left an estate of $22,579,000. ¶The Soneson scholarships, established last year in the will of Mrs. Anna Soneson Rahn to honor her first husband, who ran a chain of auto-parts stores. The grants, limited to Protestant graduates of Du-luth's public high schools, will pay half the expenses for pupils of outstanding character and leadership whose grades alone do not stamp them as brilliant...
Sacred Past. Once Montreal had been the doorway to all of North America. Out of the "sacred city," founded in 1642, went Marquette, Champlain, La Salle, Du Luth, Joliet and many another to explore the New World and baptize the heathen Indians...
...Victor Luth, a goodhearted, 65-year-old real estate operator, had a painful, recurring dream. "I dream I am hurrying down a street," he told his brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...
With this symbolic nightmare providing a pattern, Author Lawrence (Years Are So Long, If I Have Four Apples) has written a 307-page novel revolving around Luth's employes who are all on the run, and whose panic presumably inspires their employer's bad dreams. The office force of River, Mead & Luth, after seven years of hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh...
...extravagant wife, Kati Oliver wanting to raise a child, frightened little Mureth Gavril trying to escape her mother's dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation...