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...presidential nomination in 1960. In press conferences, in hard digging behind the scenes, in earnest conversation with his fellow Governors, and in tireless, wide-grinning glad-handedness, he had no serious challenger as the conference's star operator. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond: "My impression is that Mr. Rockefeller can hardly wait to see his candidacy get off the ground and into the open...
...century ago the first Protestant missionaries set foot in Japan.† What they found was not merely indifference or suspicion, but a ferocious hatred of Christianity that had been fostered by three centuries of relentless persecution. In last week's Christian Century, Presbyterian Missionary Richard H. Drummond tells of the all-but-forgotten martyrdom of Japan's first Christians...
...effective, the shoguns invented tsurushi, in which the victim was suspended head downward in a pit, often partly filled with offal, to hang in agony sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom if they renounced their faith, chose...
Born. To Philip Crosby, 24, son of Bing, twin brother of Dennis, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 20: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Dixie Lee (after Philip's late mother). Weight...
...hardware did much less than the Italians last week to steady the West's sometimes teetering confidence in its security. "The American people," wrote Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond, "would like nothing better than to stand up and salute a courageous, riskful and determined ally...