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...view were its star performers. Dr. John Heiss, elected president, is a business-like pastor of a Spiritualist church in Jamaica, L. I., publisher of small Long Island newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told several women they were to go on trips...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine one day last week, plump-cheeked little Dean Milo Hudson Gates read from Acts, XVII. Lean little Bishop William T. Manning stood in red vestments by his side. Dean Gates read from the words of another little man, but a great one: bald, homely St. Paul who stood on a rock on Mars Hill in Athens and cried...
...three years ago, Major Ramon Franco (''The Spanish Lindbergh") led a dramatic but abortive revolt by 500 Spanish aviation officers and enlisted men. One of Major Franco's followers was Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Last week at Tablada Airdrome, near Seville, Lieut. Collar and Captain Mariano Barberan, bald-pated air hero of the Moroccan war, climbed into a long-snouted Breguet biplane named Cuatro Vientos. Lumbering beneath an enormous fuel load (1,400 gal.) the plane took more than a half-mile run to get off. In an hour it was over the ocean...
...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...
...succeed Headmaster Alfred Ernest ("Al") Stearns, resigned because of illness. No introductions were necessary; Dr. "Jack" Fuess, 48, has taught English at Andover since 1908. He became acting headmaster in March upon the death of Dr. Charles Henry Forbes, who had functioned during Dr. Stearns's absence. Bald, smooth-faced "Jack" Fuess (pronounced "Feece") has long edited the alumni bulletin and is secretary of the alumni fund. His fame reaches far beyond Andover as a scholarly biographer of Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz, Rufus Choate, Caleb Gushing. He is now working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge, though...