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GEORGE JOHNSON Wausau...
Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...
...state convention in out-of-the-way Wausau, C.I.O. moderates ousted the left-wingers who had run the show since 1937. Out went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
Another contributor was Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch of Wausau, Wis., who took third place in the broad jump, then drove 160 miles to Bloomington, Ind., to pitch Michigan's nine to its sixth successive Big Ten triumph...
When 56-year-old Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger stepped off a train in Wausau, Wis., he wore no hat or overcoat, sported white ducks and an old brown jacket, carried an umbrella, a knapsack on his back. Because it was -7°F., police promptly ran him in. Composer Grainger finally identified himself, explained that he dislikes heavy clothing, has not worn a hat in 20 years, carries the umbrella simply to keep snow out of his bushy hair...