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Religionist Potter, onetime Bible expert for the defense in the famed Evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. (1925), resigned a year ago from the Universalist Church. He has been a Baptist, a Unitarian. Short, clean-shaven, getting bald, fond of colored neckties, he has a voice which carries well...
...going, but where did they come from?" The answer was : they came from Canada, from a farm not far from Toronto. The history of Brother Frederick is a good deal the shorter of the two. He is 13 years the younger. He is only 42, tall, dark, clean-shaven. His business career has been mainly in Canada although more than once he has joined forces with his brother on both sides of the border. He is a director of the Bank of Toronto and in a chain of Canadian enterprises allied with his brother's interests...
...Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics and much horse backing at Fairfield, Conn., where he is a master-of-hounds and keeps an airplane), President Palmer's policy has been to market standard and recognized medicines under their...
...banquet to Detective Tokuda was arranged. A long table was set up in the station house. Detective Tokuda, in a handsome grey kimono, sat at the head while smiling policemen and bespectacled detectives sat down to rice, pineapple and many a bottle of strong Japanese beer. Even the stern, shaven-headed Captain of Police condescended to drink a foaming glass or two to honor his subordinate...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...