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Less hasty were the American Lutherans, meeting in the ultra-plain parish hall of Detroit's Salem's Lutheran Church. Said ruddy, robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
...bright April day in 1903, Dr. Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
...death of Huey Long the remnants of his dictatorial machine were all but erased. Of eight Longster Congressmen, four were beaten, two were forced into runoffs, one failed to run, only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when the paper broke the building scandal which doomed...
...Ferdinanda Wesselhoeft Reed, 69, wife of Harvardman Willard Reed, a onetime Unitarian minister, Cambridge schoolmaster. Robust granddaughter of Dr. Robert Wesselhoeft, who went to the U. S. from Germany in 1840, settled in Vermont, Mrs. Reed once sat at the feet of Boston's late great Novelist William Dean Howells; in 1933 she exhibited some of her sculpture at the Chicago World's Fair; only six years ago at 63 she put in half a day's work with a shovel digging Moscow's subway...
...heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...