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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Oliver La Farge II, 38, archeologist, author who gave fine publicity to New Mexico in his Pulitzer-Prizewinning Laughing Boy; and Consuelo Otille ("Billie") Baca, 26, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Pendaries Baca, onetime Secretary of State for New Mexico; in Santa Fe, N...
...knot motor yacht Q. E. D., streamlined startler designed by and built for Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...
Protestant aumônier général is France's most famed Protestant-tall, white-haired, meticulous Rev. Marc Boegner, 58, under whose leadership 1,000,000 French Protestants, representing all the big churches save the Lutheran (in Alsace) and the Baptist, were reunited last year after a century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit...
...Ithaca, N. Y., death from malnutrition came to Caesar, baby porcupine, born by Caesarean operation performed last June by a State Conservation Department official after his automobile had killed the pregnant mother...