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...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...
Frankly, we don't think Joe E. Lewis is worth it, but Austin Mack, his piano player, is a Harvard man, so there will be a convert charge of $1.50 per person. Saturdays, it's $2.00 per person. --Advertisement of the restaurant at the Poinciana Hotel, Miami Beach...
...M.P.s took this with loud cheer and a grain of salt. Minister Cross cited acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
Earlier yesterday Sullivan had filed suit in Cambridge Court, denounced the Lampoon for its phony "expose" of his Communist affiliations, and announced that he would convert the moldy Poon clubhouse into a modern filling station...
...hyperthyroidism and diabetes. But the diseases need opposite treatments. Diabetics, who cannot make use of the sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly, must be stoked with a much larger supply of fuel. Diabetics need injections of insulin to convert their sugars to useful work, but for high-gear hyperthyroids, insulin may be fatal...