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...Getting a New Parish. "Ministers shrink from being drawn into a contest with each other for a vacant place, and preserve self-respect better by refusing to strive with one another for an open pulpit. A minister, like a maiden, should insist on being told that he is the one & only person who is in the mind of the wooer-in this case, the congregation...
...connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first put ACTH in the headlines (TIME, May 2), are placed in this group by many authorities. Several others follow the same pattern of quick relief, quick relapse when treatment is stopped.¶ Swollen lymph glands and nodes shrink visibly; even lymphatic leukemia (blood cancer) is slowed for a while...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...
Harris warns in his book, "This Market for College Graduates," that the siream of college graduates," wanting jobs is increasing while the number of jobs shrink. The book will be published today by the Harvard University Press...
...unless he could understand a childhood geared to Let Her Fly. In The Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren's compassionate understanding of Frankie and his world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist's triumph...