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...about themselves. Unhappiest of all were the missionaries, whose work spotlighted the absurdity of the Christian schism ("How can you ask a Chinese in North China to become a Southern Baptist?"). One of the greatest of those missionaries was Episcopal Bishop Charles Brent. At a worldwide missionary conference in Edinburgh in 1910, Bishop Brent conceived the idea that, just as division thrives on ignorance, unity might burgeon with more inter-church understanding...
...addition to the series of conferences inspired by Bishop Brent, called "Faith & Order," two other currents of cooperation were set in motion at the Edinburgh Conference. One was the International Missionary Council, which still exists to foster cooperation among Protestant missionaries. The other, known as "Life & Work" and led by Sweden's Archbishop Nathan Soderblom, brought Protestant and Orthodox leaders together to see what they could do about social, economic and political problems...
...currently engaged in the resurrection of a sunken 16th Century treasure ship ("I think the world is too drab; we could do with a little romance"-TIME May 15); by his second wife, Louise Clews Varreck Campbell, 45, who Charged adultery; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Edinburgh...
...Manhattan hospital, the Duchess of Windsor was in "satisfactory condition" after a "minor operative procedure" performed by Dr. Henry Wisdom Cave, president of the American College of Surgeons, and attended by famed Gynecologist Dr. Benjamin P. Watson, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh...
...name: Osborne Henry Mavor), 63, Scottish physician-playwright (Daphne Laureola), who began in middle age writing whimsical plays as a sideline, gave up his medical practice to work full time at it, became one of Britain's leading playwrights (32 plays, ten hits); of a vascular ailment; in Edinburgh...