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Died. Rush Dew Holt. 49, politically erratic onetime (1935-41 ) wonder-boy U.S. Senator from West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican...
Anchor man of the conference is Missouri's Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, 69, head of a commission that has been working for more than five years on a plan for organic unity of the nine conference denominations. Last week Bishop Holt gave the press an "unofficial" look at the plan...
...main problem, Dr. Holt explained, is to bring into one body* three types of churches-congregational, presbyterian and episcopal-which already recognize one another's ministries and sacraments but are accustomed to operate under somewhat different forms of organization. Highlights of the conference plan...
...Bishop Holt's current job is to get the plan into the hands of influential members of the participating denominations with hope of a "convocation" to consider it one year from now. But greying Methodist Holt, who has been "plugging and praying" for organic unity since 1910, is far from overoptimistic about the chances of early success. "Union is bound to come," he said last week. "It is tragic that so many fail...
...famous Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were found dead in a junk-filled house in uptown Manhattan). Why, asks Author Davenport, did devoted brothers of good family and good education die in squalor and madness when they had scads of money in the bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma Holt dominated her married son, his gentle wife and their two young sons. Just as daddy is about to break from the Milquetoast mold, he is kicked in the head by a horse and killed. By the time the boys are freed by Grandma's own death...