Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ehrensperger, editor of the Motive, Nashville, Tenn.: "Too often [church leaders] are ugly, intolerant and unreasonable on minor vices because of their own starved lives. . . . They are oftentimes good because they haven't the courage to be bad. They are the masters of minor talents and the champions of inconsequential virtues...
...Eugene Smathers, Big Lick, Tenn.: "The greatest weakness of the church is its institutional self-centeredness. [By] seeking to save its own life instead of losing its life in the service of men, it is gradually becoming impotent...
Near Gatlinburg, Tenn., a C-47 cargo plane took off, climbed above the wild, wooded slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains. Flying low, at elevations between 1,500 and 5,000 feet, the plane reeled out 16 miles of continuous telephone wire in six and two-thirds minutes flat, linking Gatlinburg and Smokemont...
FURY IN THE EARTH-Harry Harrison Kroll-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Rivermen, gamblers and pioneers think the end of the world is at hand as earthquakes wreck New Madrid, Tenn., in 1811. Tense and melodramatic...
Teacher's Career. Her sisters are married to a minister and a college president; Mildred chose another career. At 20, she launched into teaching: at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., a job which her father arranged; at Francis Parker, where she taught eighth grade; at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn., where she arrived with her hair bobbed, shocking Tennesseans in 1923; at Oberlin, where she was dean of women; and finally to Wellesley, where she became a college president...