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History and legend have both been unkind. Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of "painful Kelpius . . . maddest of good men . . . weird as a wizard, over arts forbid." But before the day when he died in his garden at only 35, Kelpius had succeeded in giving his followers something of his vision of a life sustained in its every moment by communion with...
...List. This year's new list of Royal Warrants has 1,035 names, including such old ones as Dunhill, Cadbury cocoa and Steinway & Sons pianos and such new ones as Quaker Oats, Kayser hosiery and the West Norfolk Farmers' Manure and Chemical Cooperative...
...have these spiritual refreshers become that last year the league held them in installments for a total of 11,882 men. Last week, the annual dinner of the Men of Malvern* heard New York City's house-cleaning Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy, a Catholic, pay tribute to Quaker Whittaker Chambers...
Died. Alys Pearsall Smith Russell, 83, of Philadelphia's Quaker Smiths,* first wife (1894-1921) of British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom she divorced when he had a child by another woman; in London...
...rumpled grey suit, stepped on to the Senate floor to speak his mind in the Great Debate. The Senate listened with respect. In his 58 years, Paul Douglas had been a college professor, a nationally known economist, a reforming member of Chicago's city council, a Quaker and pacifist. In 1942, at the age of 50, he had become a World War II marine. Now, after two years in the Senate, he had emerged as a leader of the little band of Administration Democrats who spoke more from conviction and a sense of duty than from considerations of partisan...