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Governor Dickinson is a Republican and a Methodist. Each Sunday at the Center Eaton Methodist Church near his home town, Charlotte, he still teaches a Bible Class. Dry and anti-tobacconist, he was elected Michigan's Lieutenant Governor seven times, presided over the State Senate in decent obscurity. Then last March conservative Republican Governor Frank Fitzgerald died and Luren Dickinson succeeded him. In the past three months he has given Michigan its godliest and goofiest government...
...that case, since they are border buffers, Soviet Russia would want them defended whether the States themselves agreed or not. The Foreign Commissar used the same line of argument in objecting to the Aland (pronounced o-land) Islands fortifications now planned by Sweden and Finland. The islands are near the Gulf of Finland. Armed and in hostile hands, they could close the U. S. S. R.'s only Baltic window...
...Spain where German Messerschmitts 109 could outfly Russian Moscas, Russian Chatos could out-maneuver Italian Fiats. In general, Germany is known to have some of the best fighting ships in Europe. Britain is perhaps runner up in airplane quality; Russia, although she has many ships, is somewhere down near the tail of the procession...
When the Y. M. C. A. was a pious dream in the mind of a British draper's clerk, George Williams, it came near being a less easily pronounceable set of initials-the Y. M. R. A. (Young Men's Religious Association). Williams, a plugger who became a partner in the firm, married his partner's daughter and eventually was knighted by Queen Victoria, finally settled on the name "Christian" instead of "Religious," stipulated that only evangelical Christians could join his association...
Archeologists digging this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...