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...back as the 1920s, the Y.W. dropped from its charter the requirement that members must be "ladies in good standing with an evangelical church." Although the Y.W. is no longer significantly Protestant-its membership includes Jews, Catholics and even atheists-its leaders intend to keep the word Christian in the organization's name. The Y.W., says Chicago Assistant Director Lucille Lamkin, is still basically religious, not in any narrow denominational sense but in the spirit of commitment and responsibility. "It is because we are Christian," says she, "that we welcome everybody...
...quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent of some respects of the old pool operations of the 1920s...
...fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production of Vitamin D, which helps control TB, but it has no other beneficial effects except occasional help for a case of acne or psoriasis...
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...
Died. Henry ("Red") Allen, 59, husky-voiced Negro singer and jazz trumpeter, who started playing the horn at eight in his father's New Orleans marching band, wailed his way to fame as a sideman and soloist with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and '30s, later formed his own group, became a fixture at Manhattan's Metropole Cafe and Newport Jazz Festivals; of cancer; in Manhattan...