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...Dunc Taylor had taken the one-a-day train out of Oxford, Md., a quiet fishing hamlet on the Eastern Shore, and gone to work for TIME. Born in East Orange, N.J., educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began setting them up in Washington's National Press Club...
...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...
...Newark's reaction...
Last week, officials of the Archdiocese of Newark summoned 400 nuns from parochial schools, handed out copies of a four-page circular urging the election of Wene. Explained Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty: "The interests of the church would be better served by Wene and other Democratic candidates...