People, Oct. 23, 1939

Appointed a commissioner of the New York City Parole Commission was Henry Louis Gehrig, captain of the New York Yankees, benched last June by a little-known form of paralysis, after a 15-year headline career. His new job carries a $5,700 salary, a ten-year tenure.

Said Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England: "In my garden at Lambeth Palace are men who supply the balloon barrage and one of the balloons rises and descends every day in the garden. The men are good enough to call it the...

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