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...Twitchell will be favored in both the dash and hurdles, with chief opposition expected from the Elis' Tod Lewis in the former and Brian Pendleton and Pete Mott in the latter
...investigate this relationship between faith and politics, a small group of Protestant churchmen met at the close of World War II under the leadership of Methodist Dr. John R. Mott and Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. They decided to begin by commissioning a history of the subject, to be prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...
Also elected were: Ulrich E. Kruse 1G, Physics; Basil Mott, Public Administration; Richard N. Schwab 2G, History; Richard C. Sterne 2G, English; Norman L. Thoburn 1G, Education; Joseph L. Tryon 2G, Economics; and Robert P. Wheatley 3Dv., Divinity. Diana Burn, Chemistry, was elected N.S.A. representative...
...course, like many another man of ideas, he had his troubles. As early as 1946, the association's financial officer, a big ex-Sing Sing guard named Frank A. Mott, began complaining about Purcell's methods. But the mayor's pal, Frank Murphy-$12,000-a-year chief of staff of the department-fixed that. He sent down an order which forced Mott to work during the hours when association meetings were being held. Mott also began getting threatening telephone calls...
Purcell bigheartedly took over Mott's duties as well as his own, and things went on swimmingly again-although nobody knew just how swimmingly until last week, when Purcell's true genius was exposed to public view. District Attorney Frank Hogan hauled him into General Sessions, charged him with larceny. Approximately $138,000 worth of ticket money from 1948 and 1949 was missing...