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...your issue of Sept. 13 under Religion you have given one of the best accounts and explanations of a religious group that I have ever read. As a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and of Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia) I have frequently been distressed by the entire lack of understanding the Press and public seem to have of our organization...
...next seven years Lippmann's editorship made and kept the World?, editorial page the brightest liberal lighthouse in U. S. journalism. With the death of the World in 1931 Lippmann seemed checked in midcareer. When he was offered and accepted a place in the columns of the arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock...
Also at the University is "Flight From Glory" with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, dealing with the lives of outcast aviaters into whose world in the desert is suddenly thrust a woman. Most people are either arch admirers or ardent haters of Chester Morris. Others will find "Flight From Glory" a moderately exciting aero thriller...
Audiences like Deanna Durbin for her negative virtues almost as much as for her positive good points. Negatively, she pleases by her lack of the arch, smarty, claphands affectations which have blighted so many Hollywood juveniles in the bud. Positively, she has a clear, appealing soprano, a plump and pleasant face, a buxom 14-year-old physique. In 100 Men & a Girl, as the daughter of an impoverished trombonist (Adolphe Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects...
...world. Largest is the London Yearly Meeting, with 20,000 members. Next in size is the Five Year Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings of Philadelphia (15,000) are now practically reunited, after having been respectively Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers as a result of a schism a century ago.* Next largest are the Africa Eastern Group (7,000), the Madagascar Yearly Meeting (6,000), the Guatemala Yearly Meeting (3,600). Once, 17 years...