Retiring Duke Educator Taught Two-Thirds Of State Methodist Ministers
Dr. Hersey Everett Spence, long time Duke University professor, retires after more than 40 years guiding Methodist ministers in North Carolina. He shaped drama and pageants, influences students including James Cannon, and inspired Duke’s Christmas Pageant tradition. His work extended beyond class, even affecting Duke football morale in 1935. Mrs Spence also retires from teaching but remains active.
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Neutral Sweden Prepares For Defensive War She Dreads
Sweden quietly readies for defense amid Communist pressure and Soviet espionage. Social Democrats counter unions while spies repatriated and a Swedish rescue plane shot by Soviet jets sparks national outrage. First kindergarten established in 1837.
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You Can’t Lose With This Bridge Play
Fremont and Bixby demonstrate a flawless bridge play at the Regency Club in New York. The article details a hand where declarer avoids two club losses by a heart lead from dummy, preserving the club finesse and forcing a favorable discard sequence.
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Convicts Plant Trees In California Forests
Inmates from San Quentin and Sole dad State Prisons take part in replanting burn scarred lands. Crews planted 200,000 Ponderosa and other trees in the Plumas National Forest. Honor inmates moved to camps across Plumas Modoc Stanislaus and Sierra National Forests.
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San Quentin
Soledad
California
Plumas National Forest
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Sierra National Forests
World Censorship Rises Yet Newsmen Report Gains
The Associated Press survey shows continued strict censorship in the Soviet Union and Communist China with tight controls on foreign reporting. Yet reporters and editors win limited victories abroad such as in Chile Bermuda and Manila where officials backed freer coverage and presses resisted censorship.
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Chile
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Port Pain
Trini
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Manila
Congress
Claro M. Recto
Stalin
Reds Surrenderers Rewarded by Malayan Government
In Kuala Lumpur the Malayan government awarded 4290 to three Chinese communist terrorists who surrendered then returned to their jungle camp to bring out 10 compatriots and weapons. The 13 Reds had feared surrender due to warnings they would be killed or jailed.
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Snowman Belief Reported by Calcutta Doctor in Singapore
Calcutta born naturopathic physician E. P. McCarthy Heyzer now in Singapore claims to have seen tremendous footprints of the Abominable Snow Man. He describes the creature as a Himalayan monster and asserts the sighting occurred with other witnesses.
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Himalayas
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