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...graduate of Delft Technical College, Boeke really began his strange career while studying at the University of London. There he fell in with a group of Quakers and decided to renounce all worldly things in favor of becoming a missionary-teacher in Brummana, Lebanon. Meanwhile, he also decided to marry, but since his Quaker wife was the daughter of one of the founders of the Cadbury chocolate company, the couple came up against the problem of what to do with her money. They solved it by turning her income over to a trust for good works...
Wayne Arthur Reeve, 21, is a husky Quaker from Indianapolis and he has rarely known sickness. But last week it was a little hard for him to visit friends in his ward in the imposing Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. In Reeve's left wrist was a hypodermic needle from which rubber tubing ran to an infusion bottle hanging from a stand on casters. This elaborate rig, which Reeve moved along with him, was needed to keep him from being immobilized for eight hours while ACTH dripped slowly into his veins so that...
...Quaker Reeve is one of a dozen volunteers serving as human guinea pigs at Bethesda. He is also a conscientious objector. Under the Selective Service Act he had elected to work off his obligation with two years of service contributing to "the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest." Of the 4,000 Quakers, Mennonites, members of the Assemblies of God and Church of the Brethren, or other pacifist sects who choose this course each year, most go to work as attendants in mental hospitals. Only a hardy few volunteer for guinea-pig duty...
Frozen Flapjacks. Prebaked, frozen pancakes, which are warmed up in an electric toaster, are being tested at retail for the first time by Chicago's Quaker Oats Co. Price: 19? for a package of four...
Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...