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Apparently much less bothered with their debt than the Episcopalians with theirs (see p. 32), the Southern Baptists reaffirmed confidence in their "100,000 Club"-an organization to get 100,000 members to contribute $1 per month for five years. When the messengers learned from Dr. Melbourn Evans Aubrey, a Baptist who brought greetings from Great Britain, that no denominational boards were in debt in his country. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas stirred them to laughter by remarking that they should "follow the great American game of kidnapping and bring Dr. Aubrey to rescue Southern Baptists from some...
...happenings of only 24 hours. It starts with rich, spiteful old Hector Champion's dinner party in his Manhattan apartment, then follows each diner home: Spinster Savina Jerrold to her spinster-shared brownstone house, her spinster memories; Clubman Jim Towner to his night-club mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband...
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