Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour), Sir Harry Lauder was acrrracking jokes in the Music Hall, and Gertrude Ederle was finning around in adjacent waters. For five years, a whale on a flatcar was a pier feature. The long tradition of diving horses was largely established by a formidable gelding named John the Baptist, a sort of box office Seabiscuit, who plunged for 30 years, always carrying a bareback and more or less barebodied female rider. Over the years, a prodigious, petition-length list of big names showed up to play the Steel Pier, from Eddy Duchin to Paul Whiteman, Ben Blue to Bob Hope...
...Hans F. Hofmann, Harvard Divinity School (July 9): Dr. Heiko A. Oberman, Divinity School (July 16); the Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, Conn. (July 23); Dr. J. Lawrence Burk-holder, Divinity School (July 30); the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Hyde Park Baptist Church of Chicago (August 6); and Dr. Aarne Siirala, former Director of the Lay Academy, Church of Finland...
...which includes two white dailies (the morning Constitution, circ. 200,913, and the evening Journal, 260,449) and the World (19,500), a Negro daily founded in 1928. Recently, when an eight-year-old Negro child, injured in a traffic accident, was refused admission to Atlanta's Georgia Baptist Hospital, the Inquirer not only scored a clean beat but had the satisfaction of engineering a minor victory in its chosen cause: as a direct result of the Inquirer story, Georgia Baptist now admits emergency patients of any shade...
...tell her any such thing, as he slapped down the potent Visitor. He had not the slightest objection, he announced, "to Catholics living at the YMCA or participating in its recreational programs. Of course they should not participate in the religious exercises-any more than we would expect a Baptist to come to our service and kneel and stand up with...
Tall, grey Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, 61, Harvard Divinity's former professor of pastoral theology and the first Baptist to be dean of the 149-year-old seminary, told Princeton's fledgling ministers that if religion is to have any real place in the modern world, it will have to "undergo a radical revolution." In fact, he warned, "the critical point of no return may have been passed." The churches are addressing themselves in a dead language to situations and issues that no longer exist. "The ancient dogmas no longer dominate the imagination; the shape of life...