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...phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...
...Salem's "tents" (pre-Civil War frame shacks in which tenters sleep on straw-filled bunks) went 300 campers, including many a family which has attended Salem camp meetings for generations, looks upon them as its annual vacation. On Sundays brick-red dust smoked up from the dirt road into Salem's 65 acres as thousands more arrived to hear a thunder of evangelists, headed by a redheaded, blue-eyed, 81-year-old Methodist, Dr. Bascom Anthony...
...Oregon farm, he went to Leland Stanford University. Like his running mate, he was a lawyer. He began his political career in 1906 as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1917 he went to the Senate. Still a farmer at heart, whenever he can leave Washington he makes tracks for Salem, Ore., where he owns a farm, bird sanctuary, an experimental laboratory, in which he developed the world's largest prune, the Imperial. Nuts are also a hobby, especially filberts...
Senator McNary has the wise and cynical expression of an old bachelor, though he has been widowed once, is now married to the former Cornelia Morton, who was told of her husband's nomination while she was in a Salem grocery store. Said Mrs. McNary: "I couldn't believe it. Charles had wired me this morning that he wouldn't accept the nomination...
...scraps from other people's patent tables. It has not been a bad living. Hygrade has missed no dividend since 1921, earned $856,807 on an $11,022,424 gross last year. But last week Hygrade directors began to move out from under the table. Gathered in their Salem, Mass, office, they voted $250,000 (or more if needed) for a new factory. Its product-to-be: fluorescent lighting, in which Hygrade owns basic patents...