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...College '31, A.M. Harvard '32, in English. John Lydenberg, of Scarsdale, New York, A.R. Oberlin '34, in English. Joshna McClennen, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. Harvard '35, in English. George R. Mayberry, of East Orange, New Jersey, A.B. Princeton '34, in English. Charles J. Olson, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, A.B. Wesleyan '32, A.M. '33, in English. Albert R. Elliott, of St. Louis, Missouri, A.B. Westminster College, Mo. '35, in Government. Warren R. Isom, of Mitchell, Indians, A.B. Butler University '31, A.M. George Washington University '33, in Government. Rufus G. Hall, Jr., of Sherman, Texas, A.B. University of Texas...
...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...
...Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) President James Lukens McConaughy took a less friendly view of Publisher Hearst. Declared he: "Leaders like Governor Curley [of Massachusetts] and publicists like Mr. Hearst are today the greatest menaces to freedom in the academic world. . . . The biggest threat to such freedom is bigotry, unfairly endeavoring to impose our own views on others and denying", to those who differ from us, honesty and sincerity...
...double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real trainer stood outside. In some sequences Animal Trainer Frank Phillipps, who has doubled for more cinemactors than any other man in his business, took MacLane's place. Most nerve-wracking moment in the manufacture of Bengal Tiger occurred when...
...years the ablest associate of the late Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday was Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, who played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices...