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...times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years. The Rev. Dr. Peale and his overflow audience of 2,400 were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Manhattan's famed Marble Collegiate Church, whose pastor he has been for 22 years. No old fogy, and spiritually as alive as they come, Pastor Peale was at his happiness-producing best...
...after day, at every showing, 2,000 Syrians and their neighbors from other Arab countries sat entranced watching the motion-picture scenes and Commentator Lowell Thomas, and listening to the Arabic sound track booming out on the loudspeakers. At every showing there was an overflow crowd beyond the eight-foot sheet-iron fence enclosing the outdoor theater. Spectators perched like crows high in the shadows of eucalyptus trees, stood on auto tops and rooftops. Hundreds of others, defying the laws of balance and endurance of hu man muscle, stood spread-legged on the upper bars of the steel traffic-control...
...bulletins announcing that a very high price would be paid for the biggest and best cow to pass though the Yard gates. University Hall and Sever, with very little alteration, could be made very comfortable for the bovine species. And Memorial Hall would be a natural for the overflow...
Stevenson lectured to overflow crowds at Sanders Theater, on "A Troubled World." Previous lecturers have included Senator Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) ex-German high commissioners Lucius D. Clay, and John J. McCloy...
...students are part of the overflow normally housed in Claverly, but the surplus this year was too big to be absorbed in the usual manner, Dean Watson announced yesterday...