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Lindbergh, Sherwood...
...winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire's somewhat fragile son; Good Morning, Major, in which J. P. Marquand accentuates a melodramatic moment in the old army game; Meridel Le Sueur's Persephone; Sherwood Anderson's Another Wife; these stories would finish ahead of the field in any literary sweepstakes. All the other stories are good ones...
...vigorous Dr. John R. Mott: "A synthesis of Eastern & Western relationships must claim all secular agencies as well as our Christian organizations. . . ." Other speakers pointed out that racial prejudice hampered African Missions, that the Church Charities are joined in "common law marriage" to extraneous economic agencies. Said explosive Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Y.M.C.A. Secretary at large for Asia: "The new slogan is not to evangelize but to Christianize. Missionaries must go to other lands with a gospel of love, not gunboats. We want no such protection...
...Byrne, Miss Emily Rowland, who taught school in New York and Virginia, always found a charm in the monotony of her career. A year ago, the University of the State of New York awarded her the degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither to be seen nor heard...
Died. David Gardiner Tyler, 81, eldest son of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States; at Sherwood Forest, Charles City, Va.; after a long illness...