Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Episcopal Churchnews inherited its motto, some of its staff and a scrawny 3,000 circulation from the Southern Churchman, a venerable-and traditionally Low Church-weekly published in Richmond, Va. since 1835. For the past twelve months, Publisher Maurice Bennett Jr. has been getting advice and funds for the new magazine from Episcopalians all over the country. Sixty-two of the church's diocesan bishops promised their support...
...whether the patient had lost blood, and if so, how much. In some cases, even when the blood pressure was normal, there had been heavy blood loss. The actual volume of blood lost, say the doctors, should be computed (by a quick and simple dye method). Their motto: "If in doubt, transfuse...
Died. Alvan Macauley, 80, longtime (1916-39) president and general manager of the Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") Motor Car Co.; of uremic poisoning and pneumonia; in Clearwater, Fla. His favorite motto: "An hour of work" is better for America than "a dollar for dole...
...decade later, with the second of his three wives, Russell launched one of England's first (and fiercest) progressive schools. Its motto might have been: "Education without representation is tyranny." The children frolicked about in the nude, attended classes voluntarily, once voted to abolish bedtime. According to one story, the local rector knocked on the school door one day, and when he was greeted by a stark-naked nine-year-old girl, spluttered, "Good God!" Retorted the child, as she slammed the door: "There...
...Hancock Trio, is still a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, still occasionally drives Engine 21 on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. He has no notion whatever of retiring: "Some of my friends do, and invariably are dead within a year." For 1952, the captain's motto is still: "Keep moving...