Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, Hymns for Children and Grownups (Farrar, Straus & Young, $3.75), is Layman Bristol's biggest contribution to the church to date. Written with Co-Author Harold W. Friedell, organist at Manhattan's fashionable St. Bartholomew's Church, it is a collection of 185 Christian hymns, clearly arranged and brightly decorated, with a very special purpose. Most hymnbooks are written for use in church. Bristol's book is expressly designed for the home. His thesis: "Hymn-singing can easily become a delightful part of family life...
Humming on the Beach. Bristol's business is advertising - he is products advertising manager of the Bristol-Myers chemical firm, of which his father is president -and he has used the tricks of his trade in working out his hymnbook. Last summer he tested each hymn on a "representative panel of children" before selecting it. Writes Bristol: "When we actually heard the children humming some of the melodies on the beach, we felt certain we were on the right track." To help out at family songfests, Bristol and Friedell have included classifications not normally found in hymnals, e.g., "When...
Halves of a Ticket. The selections reflect Layman Bristol's wish to make the hymnal, intended primarily for children, a "happy book." To appeal to children, they have stressed hymns about Christ's boyhood and everyday life, e.g.,O Master of the Callous Hand, Bristol's own My Master Was a Worker...
Last week, his book already cheered by religious and parents' groups, Bristol was back working Sundays and weekdays on other phases of his active lay apostolate...
Says Commuter Bristol (who did much of the work on the hymnal on the train between his Princeton, N.Y. home and his Manhattan office) : "A man's Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round-trip ticket : not good if detached...