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...ministers were requested to provide their own towels. Everything else was free: room, board, textbooks, tuition. On these liberal terms 100 small-town Pennsylvania pastors last week attended a novel School of Religion, where they got the theological equivalent of a salesmen's pep meeting, a stiff refresher course on church problems, and an exposure to ideas which under any other auspices they might have thought revolutionary...
WPTF in Raleigh and several other stations wanted to carry Kaltenborn's pep talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...
Speaking of the track team, Jaskko Mikkola called it a "singing team full of pep, with plenty of spirit." In the cancellation of the Dartmouth meet he saw a blow to the team, however because the men cannot be kept in a state of psychological suspense for long. "It is not a team of stars," he said, "but it has great endurance and strength...
...Edward Spencer Cowles, head of the lucrative Body & Mind Foundation, was up on a platform addressing an audience of 300. In popped the police, led by Assistant Attorney General Bernard Bienstock. Thus after 19 stormy years Dr. Cowles's treatment of nervous socialites with brown medicine and mass pep talks came at least temporarily to a halt...
...MacLeish dispelled apprehensions, cleared up the "What can I do?" question and told the broadcasters what kind of guidance they could expect from his office henceforth. Among matters soon to be set right by OFF and a Broadcasters' Victory Council in Washington: excessive bunching and repetition of appeals, pep talks, the national anthem...