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...shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said he revived dying men with brandy...
...sire? Or would bad racing luck-his jockey was thrown at the start of the Kentucky Derby; Bold Venture beat him by a nose in the Preakness-cost him this race too? Ten horses, bunched in a feathery cloud of dust, swung into the last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch, while 35,000 people shouted, he outran his own bad luck. Mr. Bones was two and a half lengths back at the finish, Hollyrood was third...
...fifth and last day of their convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week, President John E. Rogers of the American Osteopathic Association appeared distinctly tired. A stout, red-faced man, dressed in a single-breasted blue jacket, white trousers and shoes, he walked about the sombre halls, holding in his hand a dead cigar butt and a tube of Ipana toothpaste...
Meet Nero Wolfe (Columbia). If Author Rex Stout had determined not to let the cinema reproduce any of his American Magazine detective stories he could scarcely have invented a better hero than Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is so sedentary that he never ventures outdoors. His only hobby is growing orchids. Beer-guzzling has given him an enormous paunch. Thus deprived of action and sex appeal, Meet Nero Wolfe overcomes its handicaps surprisingly well, thanks to an effective performance by Edward Arnold and to the presence of Lionel Stander as Wolfe's dazed but tireless assistant...
...first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights to William B. Stout's light, streamlined 24-passenger bus body. Only Wood enterprise not included in the "industries" is Gar Wood, Inc., the boat company at Marysville, Mich...