Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There isn't exactly a Mr. Protestant, sir. But there's Franklin Clark...
...year-old granddaughter Anne. In the kitchen, his wife Hilda was baking a cherry pie. It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry is perhaps the most influential leader of world Protestantism -one of the two or three American churchmen with a wide international reputation. He is also the most powerful figure among U.S. Lutherans, third biggest Protestant group in the U.S. (after the Baptists and Methodists...
...member of the Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, and 3) first American ever elected president of the 50-million-member Lutheran World Federation. All these titles illustrate one fact: of all the denominations in the U.S., Lutheranism is experiencing the most dramatic new birth, and Franklin Clark Fry, more than any other Lutheran, is its symbol...
...with a Gun. "The Lord called me into the ministry and the church called me away from it," says Franklin Clark Fry. "This is a deep psychological problem for me. I would much rather have a pastorate than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery...
Heavy Gavel. Literally presiding over Lutheranism's move toward the outside world is Franklin Clark Fry. He is, in fact, considered to be the outstanding presiding officer in his or any other church; with Roberts' Rules of Order at his fingertips and a mind like an I.B.M. machine, he seems able to get purposeful action out of the most unpromising assembly. When he presided at the opening session of the constituting convention of the National Council of Churches in 1950, he insisted on no fewer than 44 amendments to the proposed constitution before permitting the United Lutherans...