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...Springfield, Vt. last fortnight, Rev. Lawrence Larrowe, youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
...Crosse, Wis.; Donald Barker '38, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Herschel Berman '38, Detroit, Mich.; Arthur R. Borden Jr. '39, Roslindale, Mass.; Charles B. Ellis '39, Cambridge, Mass.; Edgar L. Haff Jr. '39, Fort Edward, N. Y.; Charles V. Haley '38, East Braintree, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, Windsor, Vt.; Timothy J. Reardon Jr., '38, Somerville, Mass.; and Charles Reader '38, Pittsfield, Mass...
...surprising that the best ski jumpers in the world are developed in Norway. Last week, when 9,000 ski enthusiasts gathered in the little town of Brattleboro, Vt. to witness the ski-jumping championship of the U. S., the entry list looked like an Oslo telephone directory. Sprinkled among the Class A competitors were a few native Americans but the majority were Norwegians sojourning in the U. S. A dozen or so were topflight, but the performer the crowd had really come to see was Birger Ruud, the No. 1 product of Norway's extraordinary ski-training system...
Rock-ribbed Republicans of Castleton, Vt., getting ready to vote in local elections March 1, seriously pondered splitting their tickets. Democratic nominee for the post of town library director: pudgy, loquacious Theatre Critic Alexander Woollcott...
Told for the first time in The Hidden Lincoln is the story of how Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...