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...last week the neighbors learned differently. Detectives clapped the "clergy" of the Community Mission 'into jail, and with them a lay brother named William J. Hager. The "Archbishop," it developed, was known in ruder circles as "Dutch Willy." Father Appleby had been convicted of rape in 1927. Father Norman was known to the police as Raymond...
...reported "progress." Since then it has been meeting regularly in Member Glenn's offices to prepare a thoroughgoing recommendation to lay before the convention which will be held in Cincinnati in October. When the commission released its report last week, it gave many a right-thinking Episcopalian a ruder jolt than he expected. To Canon 41 the commission recommended a simple amendment: "Any person whose former marriage has been dissolved for any cause by a civil court may, after the expiration of one year from the granting of the divorce, apply to the bishop of his or her diocese...
Like so many neat flowerbeds, the 43 books of Edith Wharton stand in polite rows that many a ruder gardener of words might envy. Few society women have gone in for such a messy job as professional writing, but even in working dress Edith Wharton is patently grande-dame. To the eyes of the younger generation, her polite and cultivated formality might well seem quaintly behind the times, but for survivors of the pre-War garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests...
Schenectady. At General Electric Co.'s research headquarters, slick-haired Researcher W. E. Ruder showed the junketeers a small permanent magnet made of a new iron alloy containing aluminum, nickel and cobalt, hence called "Alnico." This stuff is so powerfully magnetic that it lifts 60 times its own weight, as was demonstrated when a 55-lb. radio cabinet swung from an Alnico disk of less than a pound. Alnico is being groomed to displace small electromagnets in motors, transformers and loudspeakers, lowering cost and simplifying construction...
...however, demos is being served. Bad as their lowered taste is, the people are having their inning. What was caviar to the mob is dressed up to suit its ruder palate. And if there is a place for sex in literature why should not the varietry share it? Life with all its experiences means as much to it as to the more effete sophisticates. If these new periodicals flash a bit of light into the deadly village dullness or provide a vicarious escape for a dry goods clerk one must grant them some justification...