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...crusading U. S. merchant of church supplies, Horace Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
Less than 1% of U. S. churches use alms bags. Such bags, stretched on wooden frames, contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...made by three Harvard graduates that pamphlets mailed to delegates and professors at the Harvard Tercentenary were destroyed were denied by University officials yesterday. The pamphlets entitled "Walled in the Tomb" were directed against President-emeritus Lowell for his stand in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and were mailed by Varian Fry '30, Quincy Howe '21, and Gardner Jackson...
About the same age as the huntsmen is observant Varian Fry (Harvard '30), recently chosen to become editor of the Living Age and now in Europe on a "study tour" to fit him for the job and get him a Ph.D. from Columbia. Reported Living Age's Fry: "I saw one man brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked...
...culmination of a fortnight of preliminary bouts, G. M. Yatsevitch '33 and T. I. Moran '32 won first and second places, respectively, in the epee competition, despite the formidable opposition offered by J. F. Varian 3L, Gilbert Kerlin '33, H. B. Wesselman 1L, and J. G. Hurd '34 has previously placed first, second, and third in the closely contested foils tournament, while H. P. Walker '33 was declared the sabre champion as a result of his victory over Hurd...