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...shock-haired youth named John J. (for Jay) McCloy, then just out of Amherst, later was to spend ten years of his life proving that the rumors were true, and hanging the Black Tom guilt on the German government. He learned the worst of the Germans as he threaded his way through a maze of false leads up & down Europe; he learned of German deceit and arrogance and violence that had led to one world calamity and was to lead to another...
Robert Salau of the Seventh Day Adventist Church arrived in New York City last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world...
...Mary A. Healey, for 19 years supervisor of the Lowell House Dining Hall, died Saturday night in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Mrs. Healey, who became supervisor when the House was built, suffered from shock last April. She had been home once but had to return to the hospital and had been there three weeks prior to her death...
Honest God. Like Anglican C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters'), Dorothy Sayers specializes in reducing orthodox theology to everyday terms with what is sometimes considerable shock effect. The dogma that the son of Mary was nothing less than God himself, she writes, demonstrates that God "had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair . . . He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience . . . He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worth while...
...censors sat through five showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...