Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University considered the situation, and decided to separate the posts of Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers. A committee of leading clergymen, headed by Provost Buck, was named to nominate a new Board Chairman...
...drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...
...Influence. In measurable terms, Graham's impact on the big city was slight (TIME, July 8), but a growing number of clergymen think that the incalculable hidden influence may have been great. The overall effect of the crusade, says the Rev. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the New York Protestant Council, has been "magnificent"-"Billy and his team have done a tremendous amount for New York. Everywhere there is a quickening of the spirit-in the churches and out of them. And I know the long-range results will surprise a lot of people who were skeptical...
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was the sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both of his grandfathers had also been Protestant clergymen). Religion began to serve him at the age of 15; when a friend came down with typhoid, Ronnie lived on bread and butter for six weeks. His friend died, and Knox prayed for him 15 minutes each day "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy. At 24, he became the Anglican chaplain of Oxford University's Trinity College...
Teachers & Turboprops. Most of Icelandic's passengers are people who, like the line itself, want to make a lot out of a little-Scandinavian-Americans off to visit relatives or settle down in the old country on small pensions, U.S. teachers, clergymen and students whose travel plans are big but funds small. They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v. 350 m.p.h. for DC-7s. At times, the trips take five hours longer than on other lines. Yet Icelandic's seven-man crews take care to fly around...