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...centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained last week: "Generally the woman of the house will come to the door protesting, 'What's all the noise? Ain't it enough to knock once?' When we explain...
Like an oriental potentate who has beheaded all of his viziers, iron-fisted Sewell Lee Avery sat last week in lonely splendor in his paneled throne room at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. For one day along the hushed executive corridors he could knock on any door and find no one at home. In Ward's top command, everyone else had quit. There was nobody left but old Sewell, who had once said: "I'll be here until I'm six feet under...
Plain Frenchmen don't care much for cocktails (rhymes, in France, with knock-wells), and even if they did they could not afford them at Paris' better saloons. But they watched with amusement as 18 of the capital's top bartenders gathered last week for a cocktail-mixing contest in Paris' Hotel Continental. As the competition went on the proceedings got somewhat out of hand, and befuddled professional interest became intense when one of the contestants tried mixing his ingredients directly in the consumer...
...Bruin errors into a single run in the second inning and a pair in the fourth. The hits were equally divided between second baseman Win Carduff, third baseman Bill Hickey, right fielder Bobby Thompson, and first baseman Tim Wise. Wise's triple was the Crimson's only extra base knock...
...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...