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...Must the ghost of Harvard return from the grave to render him his due? It is an insult to him and a slothful blotch on the self-respect of his current sons not to keep him polished up in winter as in spring...
...resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...
Some 45 years ago in Durham, Me. "Rev." Frank. W. Sandford, a magnetic little man who had been an able baseball player, founded the Holy Ghost and Us Society, built some gilt-domed frame houses on a hilltop which he called "Shiloh." He named himself "Elijah," claimed he had the ear of the Holy Ghost, collected money in abundance from 1,000 followers...
...Ghost Kenny, an Iowa-trained lawyer by profession, had visions of much better things. Last week, as 3,000 copies of Dougal Herr on Marriage, etc. were going through the bindery, Author Herr got a temporary restraining order to prevent the sale of his own book...
...alleged that: 1) Ghost Kenny got together with William A. Kaufmann, Author Herr's law partner and holder of 20% of the stock of Legal Publications, Inc.; 2) controlling a combined 60% of the stock, Kenny and Kaufmann thereupon voted themselves $400 a week salaries out of proceeds from selling the book; 3) Kenny, who had been hired principally to do laborious legal research, rewrote the preface to give himself credit for his work, an unheard of action for a ghost...