Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldwide Anglican Communion has a new top prelate in a new top job. To streamline its scattered activities in a jet-shrinking world, the Archbishop of Canterbury last week announced that he had picked an American: the Right Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash...
Last week the Navy announced the appointment of the first chaplain to be assigned to active duty aboard submarines on patrol: the Rev. John Laboon Jr., lieutenant. His watery parish will consist mostly of nuclear-powered subs carrying ballistic missiles. "I hope to have a large parish before long," says Father Laboon. "At sea I'll care for the men; on the base I'll look out for their families...
...priest; three of his sisters are nuns). He began his studies at the Jesuits' St. Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville, Pa., went on to Woodstock College in Maryland, was ordained in June 1956. After two more years of theological study, his superiors asked Father John Francis Laboon Jr., S.J., if he had any preference in assignment. Said he: "I'd like to get back into submarines...
Last week an important speedup of this fast detection method was reported to a meeting of the International Academy of Pathology in Boston. Developed at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, by Captain Leroy H. Dart Jr. and Master Sergeant Thomas R. Turner, the new wrinkle rests on facts about the cell's nucleic acids that were unknown in 1943. Biochemists are now sure that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) generally increases in human cancer cells; they suspect that ribonucleic acid (RNA) also rises. If the nucleic acid can be spotted under a microscope, it should be a tipoff...
...sellout show in Manhattan, has exhibited in Paris and Milan, was the only American to win a painting prize at the Carnegie International, and has seen three of his paintings bought for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. Almost despite himself, greying, unassuming Alfred Barr, 57, has become the most powerful tastemaker in modern art, since he largely makes the taste for the museum, and the museum, in turn, sets the taste of those who think that in art, as in clothes, it is smart to be fashionable...