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...sweating out their decisions. Some of the generals and admirals, he noted, alternated between cursing the weathermen and demanding forecasting accuracy that was impossible to supply. Many of their bitterest complaints were not about the forecasting but about the weather. General Patton, despairing of meteorology, once turned to his chaplain: "Goddam it," he shouted, "get me some good weather...
...University must go down, if not bury its head and fail to recognize how deeply insulted we enrolled are by the suggestion that the University is not content with the present number. C.P. Sifton, General Secretary and Treasurer in charge of miscellaneous contributions. Robert Cumming, Past President. Fred Seidel, Chaplain...
...syndicated newspaper column Spires of the Spirit, Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, un-petaled himself about flowers and funerals. " 'Please Omit Flowers,' " he wrote, "is a request often issued when arrangements are announced for what is usually called a funeral service . . . Whence comes this incongruous suggestion? Omit flowers-in the Valley of Shadow, when every yearning impulse is struggling vainly to express feelings that are too deep for words! . . . In 'Say it with Flowers' there stretch enchanting vistas of sacramental beauty like the glory of a garden or the shimmer of moonlight...
...stormy petrel on the Princeton campus is Father Hugh Halton, a Dominican priest with a long chain of academic degrees and a penchant for being a "born controversialist." As chaplain to the Catholic students at the University and head of the campus Aquinas Foundation, he is the religious spokesman of a sizeable minority at the University...
...Pole. This week hundreds of recent and back copies were being loaded aboard Navy supply ships at Davisville, R.I. for Polar Expert Paul A. Siple and some 350 other scientists and military men who will spend the International Geophysical Year on Operation Deep Freeze II in the Antarctic. Navy Chaplain John E. Zoller, who collected the magazines, explained that his responsibility on the 18-month expedition will be morale, and reading material will be his best aid. "The opportunity to pick up TIME, read it and look at the pictures will be a touch of America that cannot be obtained...