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Meadows, submissive, uninvolved and the oldest of the four prisoners, dreams of Cain and Abel-the general human spectacle of brother murdering brother. But violent David King in his dream is King David clashing with Absalom; and scoffing, self-pitying Peter Able is Isaac being led to slaughter. Finally Corporal Adams, the responsible man seeking light and truth, sees David, Peter and himself as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, all cast into the fiery furnace, all sharing-and surviving-a fearful ordeal...
...Dartmouth's oldest, best loved professors died yesterday morning after a short illness. He was 73-year-old Leon Burr Richardson, who had taught at the college for 46 years...
Died. Everett Welles Frazar, 84, who inherited Frazar & Co., oldest and biggest Oriental trading company in the U.S. (founded in 1856 by his father), which introduced automobiles, airplanes, electric lights, phonographs and food-canning to Japan; in Daytona Beach...
...Reform congregations, 150,000 in Conservative congregations. But each group claims a large additional number of unenrolled worshipers. *Among them: U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. *A Jewish woman, at this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati. * E.g., Isaiah 53:3-5: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...