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...Atlanta, Ga...
Thundered the Archbishop of Lyon: "This abominable dance kills virtue, and gives rein to every appetite." At an Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
...Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sam F. Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...
...Griffin, Ga., last week, a lanky high-school senior struck out his 18th batter in seven innings, and clinched the ballgame, 6-4. Pitcher Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19, was pitching the kind of ball that had already brought major-league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast...
...afternoon last week a shining Lockheed Lodestar settled on to the broad runway at Daniel Field, a wartime bomber base in Augusta, Ga. Out of the plane stepped a smiling man whose arrival three years ago would have brought the whole big base to crackling attention. Gasped an airline stewardess: "It's Ike Eisenhower...