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As a rule, Protestants forget their saints, but last week Protestants in Manhattan honored Mary Reed, a gently indomitable old lady in India who is the greatest living apostle to the lepers. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of her heading Chandag Leprosarium in the Himalaya foothills.
In fact, for the last year the companies have been putting out so much miscellaneous chaff every week that it is difficult to wade through the frothy odds and ends to find anything of more than trifling musical interest. Even banking on past reputations one is likely to collide with...
Franny and Dick are both expected to say a few words and with them will be Bobby Green, captain and star end of the 1938 eleven, who will leave his theological school Eible behind for the occasion.
At a sentimental editorial conference one day last week the London Times's famed Geoffrey Dawson, now 67, retired after 25 years' service, handed his editorship to his assistant, spare. 50-year-old Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward.* The Times marked the occasion as an important milestone...
Richard C. Floyd, chairman of the Varsity Club Committee, will preside at the occasion, before which cocktails will be served. Each member of the Varsity Club may bring one guest, but it is urged that all applications for tickets he made before Monday, as the accomodations are limited.