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...from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped ship with him the first time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore...
Biggest churches are the Roman Catholic (20,831,139), Baptist (10,332,005), Methodist (9,109,359), Lutheran (4,589,660). Biggest Protestant gains were registered by the Baptists (140,308) and the Reformed Church (81,958). The Church of Christ, Scientist (whose Founder Mary Baker Eddy frowned upon efforts to count her flock), and the Jewish bodies, reported no change. Small churches tend to grow faster than big ones. Denominations with a membership of more than 50,000 gained an average 1.1%, while lesser sects "reached the astonishing figure of 29.49%." Last year 49.43% of the population was "affiliated...
...Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting, and one of the sectional conferences was that of the Society for Research...
...Scientist finds oldest plant of non-marine world...
American Chemical Society prize of $1,000 has been awarded for 1937 to E. Bright Wilson, Jr., assistant professor of chemistry in Harvard University, it was announced yesterday. The award, bestowed annually upon a scientist under thirty-one years of age and of unusual promise, goes to Dr. Wilson, who is twenty-nine, for his experimental work in physical chemistry...