Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...
...Gray never went to medical school, but at 23 he had picked up enough dissecting skill to become house surgeon at London's St. George's Hospital. At 25 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, spent the next six years putting together his book "to furnish the student and the practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body...
...With Gray's own lucid structure and fine woodcuts by his hospital colleague, Dr. Henry Vandyke Carter, the first 750-page (3 Ibs. 4 oz.) edition was a medical bestseller. The British Medical Journal quickly called it "The manual of anatomy," and it soon outsold the much-higher-priced standard work. Quain's Anatomical Plates...
...Gray died of smallpox, contracted after treating it in his small nephew. But the book had already given him the fame of a far older man. Today platoons of top physician-editors preside over every new edition, and like every healthy institution, it has markedly changed through the years. Gray might not recognize much of himself in the new British 32nd edition, but the structure is the same. The way Dr. Gray looked at the human body simply cannot be beaten...
...University had offered the services of its law firm, Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, to the Church to assist in arguing the interpretation of the act. However, the attorney for the Church and Chairman of its Building Committee, Sarkis M. Zartarian, said that he did not use the firm...