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...undisputed ecumenical giants-a chairman of the Study Program for the World Council of Churches' first two General Assemblies, a major force in the negotiations that fused the Council and the old International Missionary Council in 1961. After office hours, Van Dusen has been a popular, effective preacher-his grainy bass baritone still seems capable of shattering stained glass -and a prolific theological writer: he has edited nine books, contributed to at least 14 others, and the 15th volume in his own uncollected works, The Vindication of Liberal Theology (Scribner's; $3.50), came off the presses last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Successful Misunderstanding | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...James MacArthur, "remember you ain't any bull and that little girl of yours ain't any cow"); fancy cussin' ("Damn, damn, double-damn, triple-damn, hell" trills one of the tots); the evil of drink ("My weakness in the eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words underlined"); and courtship ("Honest, Mom," insists MacArthur to O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Great Outdoors | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...here to see that, and then I missed it. I wish it had been a hearse." Now it was over. The Negroes were forced back into the church, and Commissioner Connor glared at the closed doors. Said he: "If any of those guys in that church there is a preacher, then I'm a watchmaker-and I've never seen the inside of a watch. They say they're nonviolent? I got three men hurt today. Is that nonviolence?" That night. Alabama's ultra-segregationist Governor George Wallace sent 600 men to reinforce Bull Connor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Freedom--Now | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...Charles P. Price '41, an Episcopalian, has been appointed University Preacher and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, President Pusey announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Names Price Preacher to University | 5/15/1963 | See Source »

Price's appointment ends a search of nearly three years for a new University Preacher. Several attempts by President Pusey to fill the position had been unsuccessful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Names Price Preacher to University | 5/15/1963 | See Source »

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