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Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
...First English Evangelical in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle have had to turn themselves into "friendliness" churches, reaching out among the 9-to-5 weekday population around them for what congregations they can get. Lutherans in the mushrooming suburb of North Hollywood have organized a drive-in church. Pastor Glen E. Pierson of Manhattan's 92-year-old Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church describes a process that is taking place all over the U.S. when he says: "We used to be thought of by our own members, as well as by people in the community, as 'the Swedish Church...
...think, and the certainty of his background helped. Heinrich Frey, a mechanic who traced his ancestry to William Tell, arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany about 1670. His descendant Franklin Clark Fry-the third in a row to enter the Lutheran ministry-grew up in Rochester, where his father was pastor of the Church of the Reformation. The small Fry showed an early attachment for the church; at the age of four he was heard to warn a friend: "You keep off! This is my father's church." He brushed up his reading technique on the minutes of synodical conferences...
Democratic Heresy. His first pastorate, in 1925, was the Church of the Redeemer in Yonkers, just north of Manhattan. Fry remembers his four years there as "wonderful, difficult years"; his parishioners remember him as the young man who increased the congregation from 200 to 400. In the choir he found "the first and only girl I was ever attracted to-I suppose because she was a strange, offish person, too. She sang soprano solos, was quiet, not especially pretty, and she was going with another fellow at the time. We would go to the opera together. I remember asking permission...
...Pastor Fry was called to his second and last parish: Trinity Lutheran...