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Mystical Hard Heads. Sir George F. MacLeod, Bart, was a Winchester-and Oxford-educated captain in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums...
Professor Bridgman's itinerary includes a stopover in Scotland, where he will deliver a lecture to students at the University of Edinburgh. He will leave Edinburgh on December 7 for London, and from the will go directly to the Swedish capital. While in Stockholm, he will give another speech, in order to fulfill a stipulation that all Nobel prize-winners deliver a lecture within six months after receiving the award...
Firm foundations for Protestantism's new trend were laid at the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937, which gathered the most comprehensive assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between...
...which has delighted moppets for nearly half a century (though it has lately been cried down by the Association for Childhood Education as a fomenter of racial discrimination), has been translated into many a foreign language, was once published simultaneously in the U.S. in 15 different pirated editions; in Edinburgh, Scotland...
...fight any more. We do not want anything to interfere with the World Series." He told reporters in Berlin that he felt there was too much pessimistic talk in the world, pointed to the Allied Control Council as proof that the wartime Allies could still cooperate. But in Edinburgh he said: "Wishful thinking . . . about . . . universal peace cannot accomplish the elimination of war from human life...