Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning service in Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, second-year Student Harold M. Davis, 27, strode to the pulpit. His tie, as bright and many-colored as Joseph's coat, was the one vivid touch in the plain, crowded Victorian chapel. From Acts he read three short passages about Barnabas, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost," under whose teaching "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch...
...them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'm in touch with the basic issues of life." At Chicago Theological Seminary, Dennis Bennett, 31, said: "I was seven years in business, married, with two kids. I finally realized that I had never found a channel of expression...
Jenny Kissed Me (by Jean Kerr; produced by James Russo, Michael Ellis and Alexander H. Cohen in association with Clarence M. Shapiro) is a cheery little bore that needs more art in its artlessness. It tells of a crotchety parish priest who, tired of having his housekeeper's solemn, scrubbed-looking niece around the rectory, sets about sprucing her up as a means to getting her spliced. In the end, he succeeds in transforming her into such a glamor girl that she gets the very man she wants...
...Kind. Britain's 34,000-ton Caronia, biggest passenger liner built since the war, completed her last trial run before her maiden trip to New York next week. Honor guest was the Duke of Edinburgh, who cracked: "I'm sorry my wife can't be with me; as you know, we've had another launching in the meantime...
Invitation to a Voyage. The correspondence began amiably enough: after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...