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...Philpot, now 27 and beginning an internship at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and Dr. Smith reported the findings in the current Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. They did not expect the work to found a major business in snakebite cures: the U.S. has only about 2,000 cases of snake bite a year. But there seemed to be no reason why men, as well as mice, should not benefit from the king snake's natural immunity...
Died. The Rev. Francis Dunlap Gamewell, 92, Methodist missionary in China from 1881 to 1930, a hero of the Boxer Rebellion; in Clifton Spring, N.Y. He was a professor of chemistry at Peking University when Chinese troops laid siege to the city. Appointed "chief of staff" of the British, U.S. and Chinese civilian defenders, he fortified his mission, stood off attackers for 56 days until an allied army lifted the siege...
...Five Methodist missionaries have been reported captured in the Korean war: the Rev. A. Kris Jensen of New Cumberland, Pa.; the Rev. Larry Zellers of Weatherford, Texas; Miss Bertha Smith of Marshall, Mo.; Miss Nell Dyer of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Helen Rosser of Cordele, Ga. Together with Dr. Ernest Kisch of Austria, a Jew recently baptized a Methodist and doing special work for his church in Korea, the five were cut off by North Korean troops in the city of Kaesong...
Long Distance. In Indianapolis, Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines studied his telephone bill, was thoroughly puzzled by a 70? charge for a call to "Heaven...
...leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal of embarrassment." But his brilliant preaching earned Shaw an appointment (1917-31) to Los Angeles Wesley Chapel, the city's fifth largest Methodist church...