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Robert W. McCoy '62, member of the HSA Board of Directors, said yesterday, "Nobody seems to know exactly what happened...
Hatfield & McCoy. Blake had chosen his nuclear churches cannily. The Methodists are an earthier offshoot of the Episcopalians, just as the United Church is a more freewheeling version of Calvinism than the Presbyterian. He purposely omitted the Lutherans and the Baptists, though he hopes they will eventually come in. The Baptists are too jealous of their congregational autonomy and are intransigent against infant baptism. The Lutherans in the U.S. are in the throes of pulling themselves together with mergers of their own (there have been 16 major Lutheran unions since...
...form the Church of South India in 1947. Under way in North India and Ceylon are similar unions on which Blake modeled his own proposal. But among the vested interests and sentimental en trenchments of U.S. Protestantism, such a suggestion seems almost like proposing a marriage of Hatfield to McCoy. That it could be seriously put forward by so hardheaded and experienced a pro of churchmanship as Eugene Carson Blake has surprised many an old ecumenical hand and given new hope to many more. A Bill of Principles. Dr. Blake is an enthusiast: he acts not out of fear that...
...Bessie McCoy retired from the stage in 1924, died in 1931. Long years have passed, and she is, whenever you hum Cuddle Up a Little Closer, not forgotten. But, dear friend, never a show girl, ever a star...
...named Cecil Clark, an "advanced" woman who preferred raising dogs to raising children. Before the wedding she informed him that the marriage would be platonic. He agreed. Thirteen years later, after his mother died, he found the strength to get a divorce. At 48 he married a showgirl, Bessie McCoy, who was half...