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...passage in the life of the nation. Men stood with their arms around the shoulders of their wives and mothers. They stood in clusters, heads bowed, openly weeping. They clasped their hands in prayer. A father lifted his son to see the last car, which carried the flag-draped coffin. "I saw everything," the boy said. "That's good," the father said. "Now make sure you remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

McLennan himself entered college in the late 1960s as an atheist. It was Chaplain Coffin who helped him find religion, Unitarian Universalism...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

McLennan, with his bushy eyebrows, beard and fading red hair, resembles Trudeau's character, who is also modeled after William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was McLennan's mentor and the Yale chaplain while he and Trudeau were undergraduate suite-mates there...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...Brent B. Coffin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, introduced McLennan last night, remarking that Finding Your Religion had an important message in an increasingly chaotic time...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson countered that with a one-two-three sweep of the 200-breaststroke, with Todor, sophomore Liz Baxter and freshman Rachael O'Beirne, to nail the Bears' coffin shut...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Stops Brown, Improves to Perfect 4-0 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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