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...Louis the city's 18 Presbyterian churches chose for their local moderator (highest office) the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, Alabama-born Negro pastor of small, spic & span McPheeters Presbyterian Church. Said Mr. Johnson: "I would rather not have had it. I did not seek it. I would rather seek humility...
...theaters, its facilities are few and primitive. But major bases have been leveled, graded and embellished with revetments and repair shops-in view of supply difficulties, a miraculous achievement. Personnel is well housed, clothed, fed. No longer does Chennault himself operate from mud-and-bamboo headquarters, but from a spic-&-span, map-covered, easy-chaired, well-carpeted office in the heart of a new compound...
Ingrid Bergman has made this spic her bid for an Oscar and she looks fair to get it. Her acting is superb and her part its her; in all, she proves her right to the inner circle of Hollywood actresses. The supporting cast is equally good, Akim Tamiroff's performance is one of his best, and a newcomer, at least to Hollywood, named Katina Paxinour, gives a stirring portrayal of the woman-head of the guerilla band...
Representing a more recent influence, in a luxurious office in a new, spic-&-span downtown building sits the handsome editor of El Pampero, the biggest and best Nazi newspaper outside Europe. Everywhere on his editors' and writers' tables the swastika has been industriously whittled; between sips of yerba maté he corrupts all the news he can lay his hands on. There are also the Communist La Hora, the Japanese Momenta Argentina and the British Libre Palabra. Through the distribution by various governments of free features and news, some provincial newspapers have taken .on the appearance of propaganda...
There was a bitter cold northwest wind sweeping across the Yard yesterday morning--may be that partly accounted for the chilliness of the atmosphere inside the Memorial Chapel, where a spic and span Easter crowd listened to a sermon by Dr. Henry John Cody, President of the University of Toronto. But undoubtedly there was another contributing factor in the words of Dr. Cody himself. Exhorting his student hearers not to be "afraid of the high and noble adventure of life," he held up to them as an example of fearlessness the young men of Canada who have gone...