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...Premier W.A.C. Bennett, told him: "If it weren't for one of your people, I wouldn't be here in British Columbia at all." Bennett then explained that he started a hardware store in Kelowna, B.C., in 1930, with the moral and financial support of John Truscott Elson, the vice president of an international hardware distributing firm. He was the father of Robert Truscott Elson, an executive of Time Inc., and the grandfather of Associate Editor John Truscott Elson, who, by coincidence, was sitting in last week as editor of the special news section published every week...
...word is out that the sovereignty of God is not bound to the chains of medieval and Puritan culture. The hope of the future lies in an enlightened, united force based on spiritual awareness and conviction." From a Jesuit: "I was delighted with your excellent article. Writer John Elson has put all of us readers in his debt for presenting such a complex subject so well." A United Church of Christ minister stationed in the Philippines thought it "another fine review of contemporary theology." From an about-to-graduate Illinois seminarian (Concordia) came a discerning thought: "Paul wrote...
When the decision was made to go ahead with the project, Writer John T. Elson, for whom this is the tenth Religion cover story, approached his task, quite literally, with prayer. "It would have been easier to do in the Middle Ages in a magazine perhaps called Tempus," he said. "Easier because they had a God then that was consistent...
Before he was through, Elson had read 40 books in direct preparation for the story, as well as Researcher Monica Dowdall's review of the concepts of God in religion and philosophy since Xenophanes. For the more immediate facets of the story, Elson and Senior Editor William Forbis drew on the results of more than 300 interviews conducted by 32 TIME correspondents around the world. The reporters had talked to theologians, philosophers, scientists, artists, teachers and students, among others, discussing notions of God that varied from pop atheism to the faithfully traditional...
...together, and from the start that editor has been Henry Grunwald. Three senior editors, A. T. Baker, Champ Clark and Marshall Loeb (this week's author), have taken turns at writing Essays. Among the other writers of one or more are Douglas Auchincloss, Joe David Brown, John T. Elson, Fred Gruin, Bruce Henderson, Robert Jones, William Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Ed Magnuson, Jason McManus and Robert Shnayerson. The principal researchers for the section are Mary Vanaman, Marion Pikul and Nancy Faber...