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...Fred Parson has been second man until recently when he went on pro. As a result Hank Bame, who has had the best match record of anyone on the squad, is now in the second slot. Because of his light build, he is not too aggressive in his play, although actually he his a hard ball. His forte is in his drop shot...
...Episcopal) Catechism: "My duty ... is ... To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters . . . And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me." But World War II has merely speeded the shift from the oldtime hunting-parson philosophy. Forerunners of the change were the Bishop of Ely's effort in 1939 to turn his palace into an old folk's home ("we keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds"); the 1937 move by a group...
...mind, is like having a devotee of Eddie Guest decide whether or not Shelley's poetry is immoral; or like a Fence Club Sophomore telling Ely Cuthbertson how to play contract bridge. No doubt if the social-science texts being scrutinized fail to go down the line for Parson Weems and the cherry tree story, the good manufacturers will conclude that American youth is being inculcated with totalitarian propaganda...
Died. Dode Fisk, 81, retired boss of a 25-car circus known as "Fisk's Great Combined Shows"; in Columbus, Ohio. Circus Man Fisk's funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining...
...peculiar: legs stiff, knees high, feet thrown toward the outside and brought down hard on each heel-a modified civilian goose step. He usually wore high brown shoes of English make, white shirts with starched bosoms and cuffs. His voice (deep, resonant, deliberate) and demeanor were those of a parson...