Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surgeon Toma has done his operations at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, some distance from the homes. Next month a new 59-bed, $500,000 hospital at Pacific Home will be dedicated by Governor Earl Warren and U.C.L.A.'s Provost Clarence Dykstra. Built by the contributions of the wealthy residents of Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, Pacific Home Memorial Hospital will be complete with laboratory, X-ray machines and the latest in surgical gadgets...
Beneath the rain trees the shade was cool. Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual. In this peaceful setting, on the campus of a Presbyterian girls' school in Bangkok, Siam, 98 churchmen from 15 countries assembled last week to talk over a situation almost as dangerous and difficult as the Christians faced in the days of the catacombs...
Cucumbers & Cheese. "It's not that I know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about...
After studying at Virginia's Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Last week Albert Johnstone accepted his first call-to nearby Ashland Presbyterian Church. Said the tall Rev. Mr. Johnstone: "I plan to do the best...
Coolidge & Miss Oklahoma. Born a Scottish Presbyterian minister's son in Murcheson, Ont. 51 years ago, Brokenshire got on radio by answering a want ad for a man with a good voice and a "knowledge of musical terms." He had to be coached on the music terms, but the rich syrup of his voice was a natural. He covered the funeral of William Jennings Bryan ("My hardest job-I hate funerals"), the 1924 Democratic Convention, and the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. In 1927, he was the first to broadcast an Atlantic City beauty contest ("I fell in love with...