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Sacramental Shock Troops. It is these changes in rural Iowa that have set 20-year-old Ruth Greenwood and others like her on their pastoral rounds. Last August, when brisk, cheerful Rev. Gene Carter, 30, took charge of the Warren County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
...much of a Fascist was Giannini? Homo's brisk leap from a weak fifth to at least a strong third among Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep...
...town's leading citizen, Appeals Court Justice Winfield Hale wired state officials, was assured that graduating students would not be penalized for their shortcomings in teacher-shy subjects. At week's end Principal Hale had found instructors for all subjects except science, taught the class himself. Said brisk Imogene Allen, president of the student council: "Everything looks better...
...first sixteen months, Accounting Corp. has grossed about $300,000, will net a sizeable chunk of this, since their expenses are small (they have only 60 employes). Last week, Silverman and Hession were in New York to explore the eastern market. Business was so brisk that Hession quipped: "We even had to hire bookkeepers to keep our own books...
...Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...