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Lewis Browne, famed Manhattan Rabbi-author (This Believing World, That Man Heine) was long offended by ponderous Manhattan Telephone books which require weary thumbing, peering. Shrewd, he adopted "Zzyz" as a nom de telephone, secured last place in the book. But his shrewdness brought publicity and publicity brought imitation. The last name in new telephone books about to be issued is not Lewis Browne Zzyz but R. Cantarrana Zzyzz. The usurper is Ramon Cantarrana, young Cuban, onetime sugar broker, last week honeymooning in Cuba...
...Jury Members were: California's Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn, Missouri's onetime (1911-29) Senator James A Reed; Rt Rev. Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn; Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime (1913-21) White House physician; Rabbi Nathan Krass of Manhattan; Archdeacon Joseph Henry Dodshoti of Ohio, Episcopal clergyman; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck...
...than super-treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Bishop William Thomas Manning. The outstanding British absentee was Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon...
...reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
...parochial schools, and also state Jewish high schools, called intermediate Yeshivas. The new Yeshiva College is the last step. It has full college rating in New York state, is a complete college in liberal arts. Later, it will have medicine, law. Already it has its theological seminary of which Rabbi Margolies is, of course, president...