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...meter dive: Sankey (D), Stone (H), Murner...
...Common got to be known as "Brimstone Corner" because of the gunpowder that was stored in its basement during the War of 1812. The fiery preaching that echoed there helped keep the nickname alive; William Lloyd Garrison gave his first public address against slavery at Park Street; Moody and Sankey led revivals there; Henry Ward Beecher preached there and his brother Edward was its pastor...
...copies now go to laymen. Stories and pictures are chosen with an eye to popular appeal as well as professional soundness. Sample eye-catching layout: Anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro's comparison of the dimensions of "Norma" (the average young U.S. woman) with those of Powers Model Rosemary Sankey...
Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines...
...95th birthday of a great U. S. hymnist, sharp-eyed, goateed George Coles Stebbins. He wrote the tunes of Take Time To Be Holy, Saviour Breathe an Evening Blessing, There Is a Green Hill Far Away, some 1,500 others. Hymnist Stebbins sang with the great Moody & Sankey revival team, whom he outlived by many years. He never counted up his output, said: "It's nothing to boast about...