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August 21, Dr. Alvin D. Smith, New England Synod, United Presbyterian Church...
...familiar enough. When that most energetic and terrifying of wowsers, Oliver Cromwell, was fighting the first civil war, Charles was a 16-year-old exile whose doltish father was soon to be be headed. At 21, Charles invaded England at the head of a Scots army, but his Presbyterian soldiers were more concerned, Pearson notes, with religion and robbery than fighting, and Cromwell crushed them easily. For six weeks, before he made his way to France, Charles hid out in various guises, including that of "Will Jackson," a farmer's son. In 1660, after Cromwell had died...
...Scarsdale, the women's sense of responsibility has the same ring. Says Housewife Rhea Hertel (Woman's Club, Neighborhood Association, P.T.A., League of Women Voters): "If you're receiving benefits and not contributing, what kind of person are you?" Adds Scarsdale's Grace Fitzwater (Hitchcock Presbyterian Church, Woman's Club, P.T.A.): "When we lived in New York City, I roared with laughter at this sort of thing. I never knew anyone in the city who was civic; out here I don't know anybody who isn't." Says Florence Willett...
...First Your Hat . . ." Mountain Man Clyde took the long way around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...