Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With Drive. Blake's drive to go all the way for church union is typical of him; one of his older brother's earliest recollections is of Gene as a five-year-old, charging into a horse-drawn cab so hard that he went right on through and out the other side. But Gene Blake as a 54-year-old charges with his head up. He is a savvy salesman-executive who remembers first names, keeps up his contacts, runs two offices of his church (in Philadelphia and Manhattan) and gets around...
...Blake was born the son of a salesman for the Inland Steel Co. in St. Louis. "My father always taught a Sunday school class," he recalls. "Even when we moved around-to Winnetka or Bronxville-it was never more than a month before we were members of the local Presbyterian church. We had morning prayer each day at home, and of course we said grace at meals...
Persistence & Ambition. At Princeton, Blake went out for football, Christianity and philosophy-more or less in that order. Of the three, football was the most frustrating. In his sophomore year, five men who played his position-guard-were given letters; Blake ranked sixth. In his junior year, two guards got letters; Blake was third. "The experience of just barely missing my letter for those two years was almost a trauma," Blake admits. But senior year made up for it-he got a large P for his sweater and was picked for several all-Eastern teams. "I suppose...
Organization Man. Blake's religious life at Princeton also had its traumatic side. Before Blake arrived in 1924, Frank Buchman-patriarch, prophet and founder (in 1938) of Moral Re-Armament-had swooped down on Princeton with what was later to be known as the Oxford Group, M.R.A.'s predecessor. Blake found the college seething with eager young men taking their friends to weekend "house-parties" to change their lives by "God-guidance" salted with public confession of teen-age sins...
...brother Howard, studying for the ministry in Princeton Seminary, was an ardent Buchmanite, and until recently worked fulltime for Moral Re-Armament. Gene mingled with the Buchmanites until one day a wire came from Buchman announcing that he had had "guidance" that Blake should bring John D. Rockefeller III to New York to have a chat with Queen Marie of Rumania. Blake wired back that this might be Frank Buchman's guidance but it was not his. "From then on," he says, "I decided to be an organization man-that is, to work through the regular machinery...