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Thus Newsman Hartzell Spence describes his father's first parish in One Foot in Heaven: The Life of a Practical Parson (Whittlesey House; $2.50). The Rev. William H (for nothing) Spence was a Methodist minister who in 30 years of pastorates in Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska never left a parish with less than a 25% net increase in its membership. You seemed to hear an organ playing Onward, Christian Soldiers when he came into the room...
...doctors, lawyers and editors have lately paraded between the covers of successful books. Now it appears that the preacher, a still older and more vital part of small-town U. S. life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...
Captain Steve Mallett and Fred Parson will be as usual at the tackles, and Doug DeCoster and George Lawrence will fill the guards. The reliable combine of Wayne Johnson and Oleo O'Donnell will take care of the two halfback spots...
HARVARD '44 YALE '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Hoopes or McTernan Mallett (C), l.t. r.t., Constantin DeCoster, l.g. r.g., Ruebel Mason, e. e., Overlock Lawrence, r.g. l.g., Block Parson, r.t. l.t., Stack Cummings, r.e. l.e., Dent Blanchard, q.b. q.b., Ferguson (C) Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Taylor O'Donnell, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mahoney Anderson or Cowen, f.b. f.b., Burke...
HARVARD '44 DARTMOUTH '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Revenaugh Malloti, l.t. r.t., Peacock DoCoster, l.g. r.g., Marion Gleason, c. c,m McCloskey Lawrence, r.g. l.g. Templeton Parson, r.t. l.t., Clark Cummings, r.e. l.e., McDevitt Geethals, q.b. q.b., Hood Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Frost O'Donnell, r.h.b. i.h.b., Slusser And'rs'n or Cowen, f.b. f.b., McLaughry...