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Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What...
...British parents sent children to the U.S. for wartime safekeeping without serious qualms-many a troubled family wondered if their pink-cheeked tot could readjust to life in Milwaukee, Wis. or Kennebunk, Me. Last week, as 69 young British war refugees started home again, some of their U.S. foster parents wondered how England would readjust to them. It seemed obvious that some changes would be made when the Empire's small fry got back...
Newton Booth Tarkington, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, turned 74 in Kennebunk Port, Me., noted happily that it was also a famed has-been's birthday but that he himself was "still...
Liberals as well as conservatives gave the Witnesses short shrift. Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex., forbade a Witnesses' convention there, swore their refusal to salute the U. S. flag was an "overt act." But Republican Maine had the worst riots. At Kennebunk last week. Witness headquarters were sacked, burned by an angry mob. There and in nearby towns private houses were raided, Witnesses dragged out and beaten...
Trouble at Kennebunk began when patriotic natives concluded that Witnesses were spreading subversive doctrines. When a threatening group marched to "Kingdom Hall," flimsy frame headquarters of the Witnesses, late one night, two got potted with buckshot. Next morning a mob of 2,000 set fire to Kingdom Hall. Police clapped its six occupants into jail for assault with intent to kill, later jailed two of the 2,000 for arson. Then the riots began. By the second night mobs were hunting victims. At Wells, Me., a crowd went to one man's house, demanding to know whether...