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Dragged to the stand to revive an even more ancient scandal was Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler, Elliott Speer's 75-year-old predecessor. During Dr. Cutler's regime Cashier Norton was on such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully...
...dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over the many lawsuits he has brought against...
This White River story was warmly welcomed by the nation's press, for 1937 has been a dull year for monsters. Preliminary indications were that Newport's might be the monster-of-the-year. Twelve reputable citizens bore out Discoverers Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate...
Lawyer Frank Billings Kellogg of St. Paul, Minn. thought he had erected his everlasting monument when, as U. S. Secretary of State (1925-1929), he fathered the anti-war pact which bore his name with that of France's late great Aristide Briand, and which was duly signed in Paris by 15 leading nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official...
...went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell's fearful and wonderful vocabulary, plus his inability to jolly newshawks, had much to do with his unpopularity...