Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advice to the Faculty. Franklin Clark Fry has rarely had doubts about what to think, and the certainty of his background helped. Heinrich Frey, a mechanic who traced his ancestry to William Tell, arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany about 1670. His descendant Franklin Clark Fry-the third in a row to enter the Lutheran ministry-grew up in Rochester, where his father was pastor of the Church of the Reformation. The small Fry showed an early attachment for the church; at the age of four he was heard to warn a friend: "You keep off! This is my father...
...also spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Though Fry's religious activities at college "consisted of playing pool at the Y.M.C.A." (he explains: "Hamilton's undifferentiated Protestantism didn't appeal to me"), there was never any doubt where Franklin Clark Fry was headed. It was Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, where his grandfather Jacob had been professor of homiletics. Here he underwent his first and only spiritual crisis. "Inadequate instruction was the problem. I already had a firm grounding in the faith, but the defense of it presented...
...Wanted It?" The turning point in the life of Franklin Clark Fry came in the 1944 convention of the United Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. On the first ballot his name appeared on 114 of 520 votes. Says Fry: "It was the first time anyone had received that number on the first ballot-but who wanted it?" On the fourth ballot Fry was president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Without a word, he rose from his chair and went upstairs to the hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other...
...Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that the free talent alone would have cost a paying sponsor...
...noisy, runs shallow. But it gives the moviegoer who is in the market for thrills a fairly good run for his money. Based on the 1955 bestseller by Navy Captain Edward L. Beach (at that time President Eisenhower's Navy aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive...