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...Daniel Poling, 75, editor of the influential Protestant monthly, Christian Herald (circ.: 427,000), unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1951, and an antagonist of Jack Kennedy's since 1950. It was then that a building-fund dinner was held in Philadelphia for an interfaith chapel within the Grace Baptist Temple (Poling's pulpit from 1936 to 1948) to be dedicated to the memory of the four famed Army chaplains who went down with the troopship Dorchester in 1943-including Poling's own son, Lieut. Clark V. Poling. Congressman Kennedy accepted an invitation to speak...
...Lighthouse Builders. One of the most vocal critics of this state of affairs is bald, hulking Lei Chen, 63, publisher of Taipei's struggling (circ. 23,000) Free China Fortnightly. Lei, who joined Chiang's Kuomintang as a youth of 20, served as a Cabinet minister in several Nationalist governments, but was ousted from the party in 1954 either because he was implicated in smuggling (government version) or because he printed criticism of the government in his magazine (Lei's version). Since then, Lei and his editors have ceaselessly berated Nationalist China's "one-party dictatorship...
...Premier Fidel Castro, the Caribbean's No. 1 nihilist, recently invited France's No. 1 existentialist, Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, down for a look-see, Sartre was only too happy to go. The beretful of observations he brought back made strange reading in Paris's big (circ. 1,400,000), dead-center daily, France-Soir...
...church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman and one of the nation's best in his field: he is religion editor of the Miami Herald (circ...
From there, the controversy spread to the mossy purlieus of British universities. Then London's Sunday Observer (circ. over 700,000) heard about it and asked Professor Palmer to state his iconoclastic views...