Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamilton, Ont., the Rev. S. Banks Nelson preached on "Fire, Fire, Fire," basing his remarks on John the Baptist. Two nights later his church burned down...
Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton...
...Hume had had no easy time. He first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...
...POOL OF VISHNU-L. H. Myers-Nelson ($3). VERDUN-Jules, Romains-Knopf...
...finally pinned by a chancery and a half nelson while another half nelson spelled the doom of Dick Aldrich, at the hands of Carloton. In the final bout, heavyweight Tom Rogstad lost to his Tech opponent by referee's decision...