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...Bishop James A. Pike, the committee claims to have pledges of deposit withdrawals totaling $22 million. Defenders of the committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...
Boston's Crosscup-Pishon Post 281 of the American Legion printed its ecumenical announcements with pictures of its 1966 Good Government Award winners: Richard Cardinal Gushing, 70, Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., 60, and Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, 55, of Boston's Temple Israel. Oops. The legionnaires discovered that Rabbi Gittelsohn had been a sponsor of the peace march on Washington, withdrew the rabbi's award and printed new flyers showing Gushing and Stokes. Ouch. The Episcopal bishop protested that the rabbi had a right to protest and then himself refused the award. The Legion...
Boston's three medical schools are still hard up for bodies, and Harvard University's Dr. Benjamin Spector has enlisted the support of Richard Cardinal Cushing, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn and Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. "The clergy are behind this now," says Dr. Spector. Most people who donate their bodies feel they are doing something useful for society as well as saving funeral expenses...
...DENNIS ANSON...
...Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...