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Biggest event of the nine-day meeting was the Bible College's graduation ceremony. Four truckloads of flowers were delivered to the women graduates. When it came time for the hymn-sing, a brass band arrived, diplomas were handed out, and 123 new Foursquare ministers went forth to labor in the vineyard...
Albert E. Hays Jr., 27, a startling nine-day wonder in 1939, turned out to be turning out all right, despite his unpromising start. As a college boy he had won national fame by swallowing 42 goldfish (washed down with chocolate soda); he then dropped out of sight. This week he was looking for a house in West Hartford, Conn, to settle down as boss of emergency messages for the American Radio Relay League (radio "hams"). Nobody held his past against him, and he never touched the stuff any more...
...Unsafe Condition." Even the setting was special. To Moscow, the Central Committee summoned a hundred or so top-rank philosophers, professors, theoreticians, for a nine-day conference. Assembled, they learned that the subject of discussion was to be Aleksandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Only a year before, it had been awarded a 100,000 ruble Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois...
...Bank & Fund was set up last week at Savannah. Basic causes of the trouble were the old differences between Britain and the U.S. on how Bretton Woods should be implemented. But there was a new irritant. U.S. Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson looked like a weary ewe, but ran the nine-day conference with ram-like authority. He got exactly what he wanted-and the British be damned...
...Page One of the Hearst press, one story had Churchill trying to keep the U.S. out of war, and a John T. Flynn piece saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had conspired to get the U.S. in. Manhattan dailies could not agree whether the Jap codes gave us a nine-day tipoff on Pearl Harbor (Daily News), 15 days (Mirror), or six months (Times...