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...banner at a Free Church Federal Council protest rally in Nottingham. A delegation of British church leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again it will be clearly shown that principlcs...
...prospectus described the Christian Advocate as "an entertaining, instructive and profitable family visitor." This week, in one of the most ambitious ventures in the history of church publishing, the U.S. Methodist Church split the 130-year-old Christian Advocate into two visitors-one entertaining and one instructive...
...families the Methodist Publishing House has launched a spanking new slick-paper magazine called Together. Edited by Leland D. Case, onetime editor of The Rotarian (circ. 302,202), this 88-page "Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families" aims to have something for everybody. Manhattan's crowd-pulling Preacher Ralph W. Sockman contributes the lead article on "What My Religion Means to Me," but religion as such is subordinated to fiction and features; e.g., a movie guide with plus or minus recommendations broken down for adults, youth, children and family, a picture essay on a child with a cleft palate...
...Methodist minister and a pianist, Composer Floyd comes by his text (which he wrote in ten days) and score almost by inheritance. And Susan nah powerfully points his moral : that the U.S. "Puritan" heritage has condi tioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." More important, it also proved him able to fashion vocal music that is eminently singable - and listenable. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship this year, Floyd plans to spend it composing and writing. Director Erich Leinsdorf, who deserves credit for a fine discovery, can almost surely count...
...misses. Yale, the Ivy League favorite, squeaked through to a 19-14 victory when time ran out on the University of Connecticut with the ball on Yale's 3-yd. line. Pittsburgh, nearly upset by West Virginia last week, came from behind to beat Syracuse 14-7. Southern Methodist, upset victor over Notre Dame, threw a scare into favored Georgia Tech, but lost 9-7. Two favorites won according to form: Michigan, 42-13, over penalty-plagued U.C.L.A., and Oklahoma, which smothered North Carolina 36-0 for its 31st straight victory...