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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City, N. J., Headmaster Frank Ely Gaebelein of Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys told a Methodist Protestant conference that little more than 25% of 49,000,000 U. S. young people have ever been in a church. Recent questionnaires, he said, showed that 16,000 of 55,000 school children had never heard of the Ten Commandments; only 2,000 of 18,000 students could name four biblical prophets, only 6,000 the four gospels, only 8,000 any three of Christ's disciples. Headmaster Gaebelein's remedy: "Revive the family altar and the reading...
Ernest Rutherford was one of the old pioneers in atomic physics and Ernest Orlando Lawrence is one of the new. Last week Lawrence was again traveling eastward, bound for Rochester, N. Y. where the National Academy of Sciences meets this week. Not only as the originator of the cyclotron but as the foremost U. S. destroyer and creator of atoms, the No. 1 U. S. investigator of artificial radioactivity and the headmaster of what is in effect a school for atomic physicists, he was to receive the Comstock Prize ($2,500 and a certificate). With a membership limited...
After being the most publicized Yale footballer since Albie Booth, Larry Kelley last summer turned down a fantastic offer from the Detroit Lions, supposedly because Yale alumni do not yet regard professional football as dignified. Instead, he went to The Peddie School at Hightstown, N. J., to teach history and coach Peddie's strictly amateur football team. He will continue to teach history and coach football, for he will not practice with the Shamrocks. Every Sunday he will fly to Boston, catch whatever passes the Shamrock backs are able to throw him, then fly back to Peddie in ample...
...from the bottom of Nashville's Negro society. A hard-working hospital orderly for many years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese...
...North Castle Township, N. Y., Patrolman William Ormond stopped Metropolitan Opera Soprano Queena Mario for speeding, driving over a white line, passing another auto on a curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...