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When Isaac Hecker, member of a German Protestant family which grew rich in Manhattan in the grain and baking business (Hecker's Rolled Oats), was converted to Catholicism and became a priest in 1849, there was no indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...
Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
...cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...
...plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide. These effects in some ways were similar to those produced by the plant hormones. Eastman Kodak Co. was selling a near chemical kin of heteroauxin-indole-3n-propionic acid. The Boyce Thompson chemist thought he might be able to convert one to the other. Before he started, however, Drs. P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock tried out the indole-3n-propionic acid itself. To their unbounded delight, it produced nearly the same phenomena as a plant hormone. Promptly they began experiments with some 30 other likely sub-stances...
...battle for the guard and backfield positions is especially spirited. Cliff Wilson, a burly convert from last year's A team blocking back appears assured of one of the guard posts. In signal drill Russ Allen has been holding down the other, while in the scrimmages, from which Allen will be withheld until about Monday, Bob Downes succeeds Allen. Close behind him is Jee Nee and pressing him is Chuck Klein...