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Outward-bound to Rotterdam with a treacherous cargo of scrap-iron last week, the 5,815-ton Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris had barely cleared the port of Morehead City, N. C. when in the lash of a whining nor'easter she sprang a leak. After a three-day battle against heavy seas, the boat was in bad shape off Cape Hatteras. her frightened crew of 28 begged Captain George Coufopandelis to flash an S. O. S. to one of the several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought...
...France, where Lutherans were the first Protestant martyrs and where, at the University of the Sorbonne, Martin Luther's writings were publicly burned in 1521. Last week the President of France received, and the Sorbonne honored with a Doctorate of Theology, a world-famed Lutheran-Dr. John Alfred Morehead. In Pans along with Dr. Morehead were the Archbishops of Finland and Sweden, the presidents of the Lutheran Church in China and Hungary, three able leaders of the Church in Germany and representatives of all but one U. S. Lutheran sect. They were delegates to the Lutheran World Convention...
Virginia-born 68 years ago, Dr. Morehead is tall, handsome, white-haired. As president of Roanoke College (1908-19), his persuasiveness in money-raising gave rise to a saying: "No use going after money now. Morehead 's just been through." After 1919 he traveled through Europe working for the relief of poor Lutherans and their churches, earned the title of "best-known Lutheran in the world...
...Hendersonville, Blowing Rock and other mountain retreats; or our famous winter resorts-Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Camden, Aiken, Summerville; or Myrtle Beach, Kitty Hawk; and the beautiful gardens of Charleston, Orangeburg and Wilmington, to which we might add our world-known hunting and fishing grounds-Ocracoke, Lake Matta-muskeet and Morehead City...
Stockholm moviegoers attending the opening of Susan Lennox saw the star's mother, brother, sister-in-law, U. S. Minister John Motley Morehead (whose wife lately bought two famed paintings from the Ivar Kreuger estate). Absent, though in Sweden, was the star: Greta Garbo...