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...Reverend Harry Clapham, Vicar of blitzed St. Thomas' in cockney Lambeth, could "make a luvely sermon-make yer cry if 'e wanted to." He could write lovely letters, too: he liked writing them so well that he sent out 7,750,000 in 17 years. For the venerable, frosty-powed Vicar had made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing...
...London: "The U.S. can now supply men and materials on a large scale to a European battlefront." The other was honest General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and no showy talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...
...Sunday President James B. Conant will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon before nearly 800 Seniors of Harvard College and their families and friends, gathered in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard at 11 o'clock. The Baccalaureate Service will be conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers...
President Conant will deliver his Baccalaureate sermon at 11 o'clock Sunday morning in Memorial Church. Class Day will conclude with the annual reception at the home of President and Mrs. Conant at 4:30 o'clock that afternoon...
...late Henry Church, a Chagrin Falls, Ohio blacksmith, musician and spiritualist preacher, who not only painted, but carved himself a colossal sandstone lion for a tombstone and recorded his own funeral sermon on a gramophone cylinder...