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