Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wily Japanese tactic in World War II was to launch balloons carrying small explosive or incendiary bombs in the hope that they would drift across the Pacific and land in the U.S. Some of them actually did land in the Pacific Northwest, and although they caused almost no damage, they proved that the westerly winds at high altitude are fine balloon carriers. Last week the U.S. Navy was following the Japanese lead by launching balloons of plastic film from Oppama, Japan. Instead of bombs the balloons carried instruments to report weather conditions encountered on their long voyages...
...Mark Tobay, 65, began his painting career by copying Satevepost covers, tried painting lamps, then moved to the Northwest and took up art teaching. A trip to China in 1934 turned Tobey from a follower into a force. Learning that Oriental art started with calligraphy, he has ever since been making determined stabs in the direction of ending Occidental art the same way. Tobey is today revered and reviled as the inventor of something called "white writing." Tobey's writing is, of course, quite illegible. Cast in loose, delicate swirls, it can soothe the restless eye as much...
...committee's hearings dragged on and on, getting headlines in the Northwest; the press play elsewhere left an impression of Administration wrongdoing. Not until last week was Interior Department Under Secretary Clarence Davis, who had handled the Al Sarena claims for the Administration, called to testify...
...this day, and the commonest memory association word is 'heresy.' " Thus, in a confidential letter to ministers of the United Lutheran Church in America, President Franklin Clark Fry reluctantly began to egg-walk his way last week through the issue raised by the heresy trials of three Northwest Synod members. The Rev. George Crist Jr., 31, and the Rev. Victor Wrigley, 36, had been convicted of heresy by a synod trial committee in not subscribing to certain articles of faith, e.g., the Virgin Birth, the miracles and the physical resurrection of Christ (TIME...
Last week United Lutherans' Northwest Synod confirmed the action of their trial committee by upholding the heresy conviction of Pastors Crist and Wrigley. But in solid Protestant tradition, and despite the Fry letter, leaders of Victor Wrigley's congregation at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Brookfield, Wis. pledged themselves to stick with him, even if that meant possible legal action by the synod...