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...When psalm-singing, radiorating Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel became Texas' 32nd Governor, he turned over his flour company to his two good-looking young sons, Pat and Mike. He also left them a sales idea that sounded sure-fire for Bible Belt sales of Hillbilly Flour: a tithe certificate with every sack. Purchasers of Hillbilly turned over the certificates to their churches as coupon shares in 10% of the profits of W. Lee O'Daniel Flour Co., reputed to have made Lee O'Daniel a comfortable fortune before he went to Austin...
Against old (62) Tom Collier were two other negligible independents and Mr.Crump's brassy, psalm-singing Police Commissioner Clifford Davis. The vote: Tom Collier, 520; Clifford Davis, 30,300.Declared beaten but unbowed Tom Collier on election night : "If the people of Mem phis want to remain cowed and contented, that's their business - but I won't. I'll be in there fighting again...
...earliest surviving copy of a book printed in the United States, the "Bay Psalm Book," published at Cambridge in 1640 by Stephen Daye with type which belonged to Harvard College, is included in the Widener collection and will be on exhibit...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing as he is instructive. Next Friday he will continue his plea...