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Three Came Home (20th Century-Fox). A month after Pearl Harbor, U.S.-born Author Agnes Newton Keith, wife of a British colonial official, became a prisoner of the Japanese in North Borneo. Out of her three-year ordeal, she wrote a bestselling factual account of how she and her two-year-old son fared in tropical prison camps until liberation reunited them with the husband whom the Japanese had imprisoned near by. As a movie, done with reasonable fidelity to the book, it is often as harrowing, moving-and sometimes as monotonous-as what the war did to the Keiths...
...Herbert Gezork of the Andover Newton Theology Seminary and Dr. Allan K. Chalmers of the Boston University School of Theology will be the speakers at tonight's session...
...freshman D squash team defeated the Harvard Club, 4 to 1, here yesterday. Meanwhile, the Yardling C team dropped a 3 to 2 decision to the Newton YMCA at Newton...
Died. The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton,* 73, rector of Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...confused with the Rev. Louie De Votie Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention...