Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Graydon's mother conveys all the wit and essential fatigue of this intelligently vague woman who could only manage to be Christian in one direction at a time. Her brood--the handsome Humphrey (Joel Crothers) and the over-eager Nicholas (Paul Ronder)--are more than adequately rakish and frenetically inept, respectively; and to say this family gathering seems unusual would be extreme understatement...
...President said he had not made up his mind regarding a successor. He promised to fill the post "as quickly as practicable." Reports continued that Undersecretary Christian A. Herter is the most likely choice...
...School Forum on "Unifying the Christian Church" will be held this Friday at 8 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School and a Congregationalist, Julian V. Casserly of the General Theological Geminary, an Anglican, and Gustave Weigel S.J., a Catholic, will discuss the problem...
Under Horton's "quiet and imaginative leadership," Pusey said, "the Divinity School has experienced a rebirth." Appointed in 1955, Horton had been a leader in the world ecumenical movement, and Minister of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches. His appointment was part of an effort to promote a more ecumenical outlook at the Divinity School and study of varying streams of religious thought...
...Adenauer is elected to the Presidency--and it seems certain that he will be, for the President is elected by a Convention in which his Christian Democratic Union will have a majority--there may also be some significant, though unwritten constitutional changes in the Bonn Republic. Adenauer has said that he intends to keep a firm grip on foreign affairs, an implication that he will be more active than is the present cultivated professor of classics who holds the office. And the Bonn "Constitution" gives the President a vague and as yet undefined voice in external matters: "The Federal President...