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...well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President John Raleigh Mott, of the World's Alliance of Y, M. C. A.'s. Nonetheless, Dr. Brown not only raised $70,000 for the expenses...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
Opposite his picture of the Virgin grieving over the dead body of Christ, Artist Vanka had composed a group of women in Croatia standing beside a shallow coffin in which lies a dead soldier. They are all in white with white headdresses and the bier is covered with delicate, almost transparent white linen. Rows of white crosses converge toward a hill crowned with a church set against a little pile of distant cumulus clouds. For a modern counterpart of this scene St. Nicholas parishioners can look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young...
...Coffin Childs Memorial Fund to be "devoted primarily to medical research into the causes and origins of cancer. . . . [It is] the greatest gift yet made to Yale by friends who prefer anonymity. . . . [It] represents the greatest opportunity of its kind ever given any university...
Starling Winston Childs, Manhattan utilitarian whose wife, Jane Coffin Childs. died last October, soon left the alumni gathering. Son Starling W. Jr., who remained, eventually explained: "My mother died of cancer and my father has never forgotten it. He has always wanted to do something about it. He has established the fund together with another person, who prefers to remain anonymous, as his contribution to the fight against the disease. The fund is created primarily to inquire into the causes of cancer rather than into its cure...