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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On St. Simons Island | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dixie, Doxie & Dewey | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...last nine years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from his bonds, informed his delighted congregation that so could they escape the fetters of sin if they appealed to God. Declaring that religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: William the Great | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...sharpen up their shooting eyes after a lay-off of three weeks only broken by an unofficial game with the St. Nicks, who won 4-2, two Crimson lines scrimmaged with the Bruins at the Garden Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Cagers, Pucksters Face Foes Away | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

Squash--Fresh.-Team C, (Div. 2), St. Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER SPORTS | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

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