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...frail, 66-year-old Pontiff found himself engulfed by riotous mobs in an almost carnival mood that-in all innocence-threatened his life. It was a severe test. By meeting it with unfaltering patience and good humor, Paul VI appeared before the world as more than merely an intellectual pastor; he stood forth as a man of intense inward dedication, piety and exemplary courage...
...handsome, lithe, Canadian-born bachelor of 37, Pastor Glenesk was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia, worked as a professional teacher, actor and social worker before his ordination. He was called to Spencer in 1955. It was then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk...
...interim appointment. A number of younger seminary executives are believed to have turned down the job, which virtually demands a 25-hour working day. Explains Stanford's Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, a past member of Union's faculty: "You have to be a theologian, administrator, educator, pastor and fund raiser." Bennett will probably find the job of bankroller the hardest. Unaffiliated with any church or university, Union needs over $1,000 a day from outside donations to stay solvent...
Heavily concentrated in the upper Midwest, the Brethren are mostly German in national origin, differ in theology and polity from the Methodists only in small detail. Mueller, the son of an irnr migrant pastor, graduated from North Central College in Illinois, entered the ministry in 1921 after teaching high school in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was made a bishop in 1954, and from the council's founding has been one of the guiding forces. He was its first recording secretary, and since 1957 has been a vice president and chairman of its Division of Christian Education. As a member...
...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, walked jauntily away from the Sunday service. Then he spotted a CBS mobile television unit taping reactions to the death of President Kennedy. Never anx ious to avoid exposure, Powell rushed over to shake hands and offer his own comments on the assassination. To his surprise, he wound up the final hand shake holding not a microphone but a summons to appear in criminal court. A process server, sure that a shot at publicity would lure the Congressman, had quietly joined...