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...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
...plus combat photography in the Philippines (as a Navy lieutenant), Barton went at it again on his own. Off the California coast, 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, he went down alone in his Benthoscope.* and broke the Beebe-Barton record with a descent to 4,500 feet, the deepest that any living man has ever gone under...
...licentiate in theology. At the same time, he became a preacher in Strasbourg's Church of St. Nicholas. "Preaching was a necessity of my being," he wrote in his autobiography.-"I felt it as something wonderful that I was allowed to address a congregation every Sunday about the deepest questions of life." In 1902 he was made a curate of the church...
...seek nothing from Russia but good will and fair play. If, however, there is to be a war of nerves, let us make sure that our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts . . . Let us then move forward together in discharge of our mission and our duty, fearing God-and nothing else...
Here is a step which should be a shot in the arm to those individuals and groups at Harvard which have been pushing joint education in the larger sense. Perhaps this move, coming from what has been the area of deepest reaction to the new educational setup, will serve to convince the scoffers that students in the College think this thing is here to stay...