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...George Hauptfuhrer, high scorer on last year's basketball team and now a graduate student at Penn, sees the Harvard-Quaker game tonight in the Penn Palestra, chances are he'll be disappointed in his old teammates. The City of Brotherly Love is not likely to yield the win that would break the Crimson's eleven-game losing streak...
Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...
...snow of the day before had turned into a driving rain. Hiss, the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, walked through the rain to a subway, pursued by photographers, and rode back to his apartment on Eighth Street. There his Quaker wife, Priscilla, who was also implicated by Chambers in the tragic conspiracy, waited...
...fear of Communism seemed a morbid preoccupation, a kind of King Charles's head. He was valued, nevertheless, not only for his firsthand knowledge of Communism but for his outstanding skill in writing and his wide cultural background. He had also become a genuinely religious man: a Quaker...
...other hand, Pearson's showmanship and love of spectacles combined with his Quaker faith to produce the Friendship Train. He first voiced the idea, and spent thousands of dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month...