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...lugged the mysterious find into the house of a neighbor, George Epperson, a Rock Island Railroad blacksmith. Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was. Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it. On the Fourth of July, young Don and his friends found a use for their find: they took it out after dark and put on a fireworks display by knocking it with a hammer. "The only trouble was," said Don, "we burnt...
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...George Tucker of the Episcopal Church, Moderator Stuart Nye Hutchison and Stated Clerk William Barrow Pugh of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., President Joseph C. Robbins of the Northern Baptist Convention, Douglas Horton, Secretary and Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs as John R. Mott, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edgar DeWitt Jones, Roy G. Ross, Daniel A. Poling...
...uphill work in China, proud of his part during the 1922-27 persecution that "took Christianity off the shelf and made it a living issue along the Yangtze," and now determined that the Y will not rest on its oars or live off its fat. His name is Eugene Epperson Barnett. He is General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s National Council and International Committee...
Dean Paul Epperson, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin--Oconomowoc High School...