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...Real Crisis." To an angry minority of commissioners, the church-state report seemed a weak surrender to secularism. But Dr. Elwyn Smith of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, who headed the committee that wrote the report, argued that "the question in all the matters we discussed is this: Is it or is it not an effective witness of Jesus Christ? Our conclusion was that the present practices of Bible-reading and prayer are not an effective witness." Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who was re-elected without opposition to a third term as the church's Stated Clerk, concurred in the decision...
...Elwyn Chamberlain...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...
Charles E. Burchfield, 66; The New Yorker's distinguished Talk-of-the-Town-er E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White...
...learned more about writing from White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed...