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...book Peter (Westminster Press; $4.50), just published in English translation, Professor Oscar Cullmann, of Basel and the Sorbonne, one of Protestantism's most distinguished Church historians, gives his evaluation of the apostle's work and stature. Lutheran Cullmann breaks with some of his fellow Protestants in insisting on Peter's primacy in the original church, and on the genuineness of the disputed text from St. Matthew's gospel supporting it. But he sharply rejects the Catholic claim that Peter began the papal succession. His finding: "In the life of Peter there is no starting point...
Servetus started his career on the Catholic side of the fence, as a promising scholar-assistant to the confessor of Emperor Charles V. By 19, however, his theological studies had already made him a Protestant, and in 1530 he fled to the Reformation strongholds of Basel, and later, Strasbourg. He was welcomed in both places, until he started explaining his advanced religious views. His book, On the Errors of the Trinity, an attack on the "three-headed Cerberus" of traditional theology, shocked the reformers as much as it did the Catholics. In 1532, his book already banned in Strasbourg...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some...
...buzzed with flying disks and gyrating Schinden. One Hornnss-stung player was borne off with a brain concussion. At a beer counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points and one incredible 340-yd. clout, was acclaimed the Schläger Koenig (batting king...
Before coming to the United States, he was a critic in Budapest and Berlin, and conducted research at the Hungarian Historical Institute in Rome and at the Musicological Institute in Basel, Switzerland...