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When, on Sunday, Mr. Mclntire handed out communion grape-juice in paper cups, communion bread on paper pie plates, 1,223 people filled his tent to eat the Lord's Supper. Attendance in Collingswood Church...
...added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her throat. Same day the twig was removed, but Su Lin fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda, Mei-Mei, to serve as Su Lin's companion, promptly planned a third expedition to save...
...zealous Fundamentalists held their last evening service in the big stone church, sang Faith of Our Fathers on the lawn as its lights flicked out. They showered money upon Pastor Mclntire to do with as he pleased. Few days later Mr. Mclntire helped workers put up a rented tent ($250 a week), announced his first service in it for last week, declared that his congregation would have a wooden tabernacle within a few months. To Pastor Mclntire's tent next night came more than 900 people. There, warmed against the sharp spring air by gas heaters, and warmed against...
...days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged, the scientists stolidly moved the tent to higher & dryer ice. calmly radioed to Moscow: "We. . . . have saved all our instruments and records and we have food for three months. The floe goes on cracking. There is no room for a radio antenna, so we have erected...
...Bessie Smith was born some 41 years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn. At 12, as a protegee of "Ma" Rainey, pioneer blues singer, she was moaning in tent shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening...