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From the beginning, Hedda was blessed with eternal middle age. She began her show-business career in 1913 as Elda Furry, the plumpish daughter of a Quaker meat dealer in Hollidaysburg, Pa. She had little acting ability -but that little carried her to Broad way, where she met and married Headliner DeWolf Hopper, 32 years her senior. The marriage was a failure. In 1922 they were divorced.* It was her last public failure...
...graduate of the Quaker-run George School in Bucks Co., Pa., and onetime student at Atlanta's predominantly Negro Morehouse College, Bond is an $83-a-week publicity director for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Co ordinating Committee, the most militant of all U.S. civil rights organizations. After he had decided to take a fling at politics, he won election over another Negro last summer in Atlanta's largely
Adams' sharp placements kept Quaker number one player Maurice Heckscher off-balance in the first two games. Heckscher, a powerful player with quick racket-work, rallied to win the third game in overtime and then dominated the final two games for a 12-15, 14-18, 18-13, 15-5, 15-9 victory...
Also rejected by the Reformation was the Catholic concept that it is possible to get spiritual help through others besides God. Even today, notes Quaker Douglas V. Steere of Haverford, Protestants are highly suspicious of any claims "that would declare, or even imply, that the priest, or the saints, or the Virgin, or the institutional church stand as an indispensable intermediary." Thus Protestantism puts a stronger emphasis upon individual responsibility in prayer and worship than does Catholicism...
Penn, with an 8-2 record overall, has the finest pair of guards in the League, Stan Pawlak and Jeff Neuman. Pawlak is the fifth leading Quaker scorer of all time, and currently has a 23.5 point scoring average. Neuman is a ball-handling genius, and he sports a 17.6 average to boot...