Smoothed Streets Stir Town Old Complaints and News
In a crowded Around the Town column residents debate asphalt on Grande avenue and traffic safety. The Missouri Waltz history is corrected via Ruth Neill, noting its Missouri roots and ties to Eppel’s orchestra. Incidental notes cover pranks, life items, and a Life magazine feature featuring Cedar Rapids connections.
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Dave Williams
Dave
Grande Avenue
First Avenue
Missouri
New Yorker
Norman Smith
Gazette
Puain
Iowa
John Valentine Eppel
Eppel
Smith
North Western Railroad
Ruth F. Neill
Seventeenth Street
Neill
Iowa City
Boone
Ames
Hannibal
John
Helen Striker
Gandhi and Sheean in Faith and Fear of Death
The reviewer recounts Sheean's reactions after Gandhi's shooting and his shift from historic materialism to belief in God. It notes Sheean's two talks with Gandhi, his acceptance of darshan, and his sharply questioned stance on Christianity and life after death. The piece contrasts Gandhi's nonviolence with Sheean's Western quest for meaning, ending with praise for Sheean's earnest prose and the indelible impression it leaves.
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Gandhi
Sheean
Christ
John Gunther
New York Herald Tribune
India
Birla House
Lead Kindly Light by Vincent Sheean A personal Gandhi study
Elizabeth North Hoyt reviews Vincent Sheean's Lead, Kindly Light a three part memoir from 1947 Vermont and India. The work blends biographical Gandhi material with a verbatim two interviews and a translation of Gandhi's teachings to modern life. The author binds humility confidence and spiritual awakening to Gandhi's last days.
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Vincent Sheean
Random House
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Sheean
Mahatma Gandhi
Vermont
Marx
Freud
Einstein
Holiday Magazine
India
Gandhi
Birla House
Mahatma
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East Side
McCoy
Howard Cherrys
Mississippi
Mr. Cherry
Life Magazine
Cedar Rapids
Fairfield County
Charles Hoffman
Darien
Conn
Barbara Marshall
Verne Marshalls
Knollwood Drive
Mimi
Chip
Life
Blake Shipton
Kewanee
Memorial Stadium
Gene Farmer
Farmer
Sports For Life
Joe DiMaggio
Joe
Rutledge
Don Padilla
Mrs. Rutledge
Padilla
Rutledges
Imogen B. Emery
The
Emery
Margaret Sanger
Perry West
Blake Boulevard
Hawkeye Downs
E. C. Cooper
Margaret Mackin
Tudor Wilder
Charles J. Smith
A. L. McKinstry
Wallace
Sue Witwer Luberger
Merl Holloway
Embassy
Montrose Hotel
Gandhi and Sheean
Wee Aed
All New
Wmerriam-Webster
Ial
Samford
Hiltbrunner’s
Chickering
America
First Street
Prairie
Marjorie Medary
Waukon, Lowe
Miss Medary
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Marion Enterprise
Kenwood
Beauty
Lydia Wehmeier Perkins
Santorizec
Mercer
Second Street
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