Word: objectore
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Arms & the Man. In Toledo, onetime Conscientious Objector Charles Cline, 30, who had served two years in a Michigan federal prison for refusing to shoulder a gun, was given one to three years in Ohio Penitentiary for carrying a concealed weapon...
While at Texas the issue of his draft classification arose. Billings had registered as a conscientious objector. The state hearing officer of the Department of Justice recommended that he be classified as such, although Billings was an avowed agnostic...
...longest piece is the first chapter of a novel called "Steven Morton." Sy Heifitz, the author, skillfully develops an interesting character albeit that most of the developments take place in bed. Through a series of failures that culminate in his imprisonment for being a conscientious objector, Steven Morton evolves as a tragic introvert, frail of body, afraid of intimacy. Simple touches make the story effective: two lovers whispering in the kitchen after a date, so as not to wake up the parents; the uneasy triteness of their conversation due to their fear of saying what they really feel. Heifitz tells...
Tall, 62-year-old Father Bishop is a "moderate churchman" and a pacifist ("I've never tried to force it on the parish -I don't believe we ever had a conscientious objector"). He is also a member of the potent standing committee of the New York Diocese, probably the first Negro to serve on a diocesan standing committee in U.S. Episcopal history. But the most important thing about Father Bishop and St. Philip's is what they do for the people of Harlem...
Conscientious Objector. In Columbus, Ohio, Ted Alexander, publicity director of the Democratic state headquarters, quietly moved to Roosevelt Avenue from Minck Drive...