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There are only half as many Protestants as Catholics in Bavaria, but those there are as stubborn as Scots Calvinists. Of all the 28 onetime independent Lutheran state churches of Germany, only two up to last week still held out against the whip-snapping of Adolf Hitler's bullet-headed Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller (TIME, Oct 1 et ante). This bold pair were the provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early...
...Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they had her arrested for being a "stubborn child...
Minnie's Yankee maternal ancestors for several generations all liked men inordinately. Minnie who was a stubborn, lazy, impudent and profane child likewise became "everybody's woman" after her marriage at 14 to an old imbecile. Contributing to her delinquency was the nomadic life which first her parents, then her husband led her through the shacks of small Massachusetts communities. Two of her children, and probably the third, are illegitimate. With disgust Professor Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that...
...eyes, the 62 manufacturers have no intention of forcing GM into steel, thus eliminating hardwood in the building of Fisher bodies. What GM was really doing, they thought, was attempting, in a carefully matured plan, to force the Administration to make up its mind once & for all on the stubborn problem of price-fixing...
Adam Walsh, Notre Dame's most famous center and erstwhile coach of the Yale line, is the final member of this youthful quartet. Harvard hasn't scored through the Yale line since before the depression and Adam has earned Yale's reputation for stubborn goal-line stands...