Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountains of Washington last summer, Walter Marshall Horton (in his own words) "saved civilization on paper just as it broke down in fact." Professor Horton is a softspoken, sparse-haired theologian who teaches at Oberlin College. He likes to travel, often turns his trips into theological travelogues (Contemporary English Theology, Contemporary Continental Theology). When he took a sabbatical leave in 1938-39 he toured Australia, the East Indies and Asia, attended the decennial meeting of the International Missionary Council at Madras (TIME, Dec. 26, 1938). That busman's holiday stirred up notions which thoughtful Theologian Horton had long pondered...
Last week appeared the result: Can Christianity Save Civilization? (Harpers; $2). The Religious Book Club snapped it up as its July choice-the sixth time since 1930 that the R. B. C. had picked a Horton tome. Whether or not they accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
...Horton, "saving" civilization is not "preserving it as it is" or "restoring it as it was" but "carrying forward its enduring values into a new social order." "Civilization" itself is "both the means by which and the ends for which any literate culture group carries on its common life." Man, he implies, can do with fewer bathtubs and blueprints. No cut-&-dried plan can save world civilization and Christianity; a religious rebirth is necessary. "Christ planted the seeds of a new humanity [which] saved Roman civilization without even intending...
Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...philandering bachelor of Springtime for Henry, Horton has plenty of opportunity for the jittery mugging that averages him $80,000 to $100,000 a year in Hollywood. Much to his taste is a role that deals frivolously with love. In all his contracts, Horton includes an unwritten clause that he shall not be compelled to play a married man, kiss a woman, have any children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds...