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...eleven children of Paul Schwarz, a Viennese Jew who was converted to Christianity, became a Pentecostal lay preacher, migrated to Australia for his health in 1905 and, after World War I, prospered as a dealer in war-surplus goods. Fred Schwarz graduated from Brisbane's University of Queensland with both science and arts degrees, took a post as a science instructor on the night staff of Queensland Teachers College, and studied medicine during the day. By 1953 he had established a medical practice that was earning him more than $11,000 a year in North Strathfield, a middle-class...
Next: Asia & Air. Today, after 60 years in business, the Open Air Campaigners have 20 paid workers ($45 a week), 200 volunteers and 14 mobile pulpits in Australia. Since World War II, branches have opened in Queensland, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as in Toronto and Chicago, and the Campaigners hope to tackle Asia next. The O.A.C. is designed as a task force to hit all evangelical targets-factories, parks, lunch counters and busy streets. This year the group will tie up with Aerial Missions, an offshoot of the U.S. Missionary Aviation Fellowship, to reach the big cattle...
Short (5 ft. 8 in.), wiry Rod Laver was born into a ranching family in Queensland that was so daft over tennis that it moved into the town of Rockhampton to find some stiff competition for the kids. Playing in every tournament in sight, the family (father, mother and three sons) became known as the Laver All-Stars, and young Rod picked up the nickname of "The Rockhampton Rocket." A blushingly shy redhead, Laver has been thrown off stride by the nagging irritations of a match, is now carefully mother-henned during play by Hopman. In action, Laver...
...When the Queensland Turf Club Committee invited Dean Baddeley to the races, he obtained permission from Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse, turned up at the track in a felt hat, suede shoes and a striped suit, puffing a cigar, and proceeded to clean up. The ungloomy dean won six 55? bets in eight races for a total profit...
...Dayboro, Queensland...