Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious composition of New York's metropolitan area, published this week by the city's Protestant Council, gives dramatic evidence of the decline of the once-preponderant white Protestants in Manhattan and vicinity. In 22 counties of the metropolitan area (reaching into New Jersey and Connecticut), 29.5% of the population is Roman Catholic, 18% Jewish and 15.9% Protestant; 2.2% is listed as "other," and 34.4% is unaffiliated. More than 55% of the city's estimated 960,000 Protestant church members are nonwhite. Among the nonwhites, the council, in an odd ethnological stance, listed 440,000 Negroes...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Maria Callas in Italy, Victor Borge at home on his Connecticut farm and Sir Thomas Beecham in Nice form a talking trio...
...Senator Thruston Morton, who had been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...
...traditional decorum: Belgium's veteran Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife's train and did a few jolly jig steps in time to Marine Band music as the stately baroness (widow of Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon) strode elegantly into the East Room after dinner...
...regular quarterly meeting of the Connecticut Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, which usually attracts an attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale...