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Wiley Rutledge did, indeed, have geography. Born in Kentucky, the son of a circuit-riding Baptist preacher, he had lived, studied and taught in nine states, from Indiana to New Mexico. But he had more than that to recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...brother had become such a good preacher in America that his father decided to send Sam, too. He studied at Dwight L. Moody's Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, spent two years on a scholarship at Amherst, and earned his B.A. at Princeton. Finally, in 1903, he set sail for India. A year later, in Bombay, he married Ethelind Cody, a cousin of Buffalo Bill...
...Louis, Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe wondered whether he should have invited his father, Dr. Charles E. Roe, to come up from Viola, Ark. to watch him work. The Preacher went to the showers after six innings against the Cardinals, and father Roe went home minus $80 lifted by a ballpark pickpocket...
Trailing the league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...time, Lindsay was the Master of Oxford's self-consciously cerebral Balliol College. But his students numbered as many underprivileged John Elkins as they did proper Oxonians. Son of a Glasgow preacher, he had long before decided to devote his life to both...