Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None of Steven's 17 first cousins (the children of Laurance, Winthrop, Abby, John D. III and David Rockefeller) made the trip...
...Brave Bulls. No Los Angeles clergyman has yet offered prayers in the streets for the team, as once happened in Brooklyn. Nor has any Dodger fan shot a buddy who had the temerity to knock the Bums, as also happened in Brooklyn. But things are heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried...
...Britain, where more than 6,000 were killed, 300,000 injured in traffic accidents last year, a Church of England clergyman had a similar message for motorists. Vicar Vyvyan Watts-Jones of Darlaston's All Saints Church suggested a ten-second prayer to be pasted on dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed...
Douglas Horton, Congregational clergyman, retiring dean, Harvard Divinity School...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...