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...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...
...Denyn is Manhattan's Kamiel Lefevere. Daily he climbs the 335 feet to his crow's-nest in the Riverside Tower, dons his gloves and thumps his way through a bingety-bonging symphony. In winter the freezing wind howls a dismal obbligato through the Gothic masonry around his booth. In summer
...respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when the latter is in use." >Canceled was the Salvation Army's farewell party in London's Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris' Montmartre, Cardinal Verdier blessed the overflow crowd kneeling on the steps. >Arrested for trying to deliver a Bible to Prime Minister Chamberlain, one Robert Edmund Harrison, 29, pleaded not guilty...
...Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth. Daughter of William and sister of Bramwell, she loved the Army more than any man she ever met, long headed its work...
Last week kindly, greying Commissioner George Lyndon Carpenter, 67, Australian-born head of the Army's work in Canada, whom Bramwell Booth demoted a year before he was deposed, was elected the Army's fifth General. No autocrat, General Carpenter promised to appoint a council of advisers. Said he: "If I ever get to the stage of refusing to listen to advice I hope the Army will ask me to retire-and will see to it that...