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Laubach decided to be a missionary while at Princeton ('09), picked on Mindanao while at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He married a fellow townswoman, reached the Philippines in 1915. Effa Seely Laubach kept house and the books. They lost two sons due to lack Of hospital facilities. But a quarter century of hardship and effort has only increased Laubach's confidence in his call. In The Silent Billion Speak, latest of his numerous rapturous books, he writes that "if we can untangle Christ from the terrible handicap of Christendom, which has kept so many millions from...
...Jersey is not famed as a Negro-hating state but the population (700) of Alloway, N. J., is pure white and proud of it. Last week Allowayans felt thoroughly satisfied when a jury convicted their townswoman, Mrs. Lillian Fleming, of "atrocious assault and battery...
...were listed in the schedule of the men's A. A. U. championship relays, and Miss Filkey strode 100 yards in 11 9/10 sec., a national record. She then obliterated the world's record for broad jumping by her sex-16 ft., 6 3/8 in. Her fellow townswoman, Katherine Lee, ascended 4 ft., 10 7/8 in., on a running high jump-another world's mark. Four women out of the East won the quarter-mile relay race in world's record time, 53 9/10...