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...first mixed jury in Federal court-six men, six women, five of them members of the League of Women Voters-sat to hear a suit over a will of Attorney Samuel J. Howe, which cut off his son and left his $70,000 estate to Northwestern University. Son Willard C. Howe contested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Reflection | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Attendance this year at Sunday services has been down slightly while daily morning prayers have risen appreciably in popularity," said Deen Willard L. Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Professor of Homiletics as he released the figures for church attendance yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Attend Morning Chapel As Sunday Attendance Drops | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters last night at exercises marking the close of Boston University Theological School's one hundredth year. The ceremony took place in Trinity Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sperry Gets Degree | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

Barred from a scheduled visit to the birthplace of Frances Willard* because the present occupants were quarantined with mumps, the delegates regaled themselves with such intricate concoctions as "Mug o' Joy," "Blackbird Giggles," "Sawdust Specials" (innocuous potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed a pageant called "World Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mumps, Hops | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...small exhibition at the Neumann-Willard Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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