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...Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
...Typical was the case of one Pavel P. Postishev, Communist leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...
Only 40 of the 413 churches which once served Moscow are functioning today, although the city's population has risen from 2,000,000 to 2,800,000 since the capital of Russia moved thither from Petrograd. According to Trud these 40 churches worked clear around the clock last Easter, holding services in three shifts attended by so many citizens of Moscow that not only the churches themselves but their courtyards were packjammed with Easter worshippers...
...Andrews is the holy home of golf, but 30 miles up the coast, where the wind blows just as hard over a rolling sea of dunes, heather and beach grass, lies the longest, toughest championship course in Scotland, 7,200-yd. Carnoustie. Thither from their triumph over Great Britain's Ryder Cup team (TIME, July 12) last week went the ablest U. S. Ryder Cup squad in years, vowing to wrest from the British their Open championship, exclusively U. S. property from...
Hard by the farm was Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin's dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm," where the famed pre-War dancer and style-setter yearly spends some $16,000 sheltering thousands of sick and homeless dogs. Thither hurried the passerby with the six sick Scotties. A veterinarian pronounced them too far gone for recovery, advised merciful death. But first it was necessary to get the permission of the owner, one Dorothy Whittle...