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...Preacher-Editor. Dr. Morrison is a fighting editor of the old school who has made the Christian Century the most vigorous and intelligent Protestant weekly in the U.S. Pastor Morrison (of the Disciples of Christ) became Journalist Morrison when he bought the Christian Century in 1908 and made it interdenominational. The Century's "editorial we" has stood for Morrison ever since. Says he of his job and his magazine: "As an editor I am still a preacher. It is a journal of opinion, not news...
Brown-eyed Betty Sanders of Brooklyn sang The Mighty Atom Bomb ("Hear the squawking friends of Hearst, they think we ought to use it first"); Lee Hays, son of an Arkansas preacher, told of his Rankin Tree ("It poisoned my potatoes, it poisoned my squash . . ."), and a pretty young union maiden named Eleanor Young did a slightly bawdy ballad about Mary Lee of the Bourgeoisie ("I've married Joe of the C.I.O."). Other topics: the Western Union strike, Churchill and Franco, housing ("I spend my days in Central Park and my nights on the I.R.T...
...world's greatest living man. But it does give recognition to a little-known "scholar's scholar." At 30, Albert Schweitzer decided to relinquish his honors as Europe's No. 1 authority on Bach, and as an organist and organ-builder, theologian, philosopher, historian, preacher, teacher and author-to live out his life, and live his faith, in French Equatorial Africa. There, 41 years later, he is still at work...
Outside of Boston, Carol Brice was not entirely unknown. The daughter of a North Carolina preacher, she first sang in Manhattan's Town Hall at 15, with a group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere...