Word: stephen
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...Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose Jr.,† 40, is an ex-Sunday-school teacher and an active Congregationalist. Last May he was made a lay preacher by the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.), but he is the first of A.U.B.'s four presidents not trained for the ministry.. Between Dodge and Penrose, there is another and more striking difference: Penrose is outspokenly pro-Arab. Resigning as a special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal last May, Penrose denounced U.S. recognition of the State of Israel in a letter to the New York Times...
Socialist Labor: for president, Edward A. Teichert, 44, a Greensburg, Pa. steelworker; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, 40, a Manhattan subway dispatcher. The party has run candidates for President since 1892, polled 45,000 votes in 1944. It advocates Marxism, opposes Wallace because he "stands for the preservation of the capitalist system...
...THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GAMESMANSHIP, or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (128 pp.) -Stephen Potter-Holf...
...author, Stephen Potter, is an Englishman who insists that he learned "gamesmanship" as late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
Sitting behind a Connecticut lunch-wagon counter and listening to the world's news, Stephen J. Supina decided that what the United Nations needed was a nudge. Supina, who had been a turret gunner in the war, did not write a letter to the papers. Last week he hired a tiny red and yellow Aeronca plane, drew a circle around Lake Success on his map, wrapped 150 feet of wire around his middle and took...