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Next Wednesday, the Committee will meet to consider integration of Annex members, according to George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University and head of the PBH Committee and Association...
...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, stated yesterday that he had scheduled a meeting of the PBH Committee for Wednesday, Nov. 6. The committee, composed of faculty members, will meet with student representatives of Brooks House and RVSO to consider the petition...
...edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will...
...best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord cited the Little Rock crisis (''The moral sense of the nation has been outraged''), continued: "We must seek and find the courage to do the true thing. Today God is troubling the waters. No man has the right...
...Seattle, where his father (who died two years ago) became a locomotive engineer in a logging camp. Ethel Murrow, now nearing 80, was a frugal, hard-working Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their school clothes, little...