Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nudists at Bethel Bethel, the little Presbyterian college (enrollment 450) in McKenzie, Tenn., found out that it was harboring a nudist. It came to the notice of the college authorities that Dr. John E. Bauman, 59, professor of zoology, had been a nudist for ten years. Bethel asked him to leave...
Five years ago, when Robert was eleven, surgeons at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center attempted a rare operation to give him an esophagus. In the first stage, a two-foot piece of his intestine was taken out and joined to the stomach; the free end of the intestine was led up toward the throat. In the second phase, a few days later, the free end was to be joined to the stub of esophagus that Robert was born with. But when a chest incision was made, the free end could not be found. Robert continued with his rubber...
Many a highwayman prided himself on his gallantry, and one of them, James Maclaine, the son of a Presbyterian minister, had such a fetching way with his women victims that when he was captured there was an informal day of mourning throughout the nation. "The first Sunday after his condemnation," wrote Horace Walpole, "three thousand people went to see him"-most of them women...
Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called...
...comparatively little of him; he left early in the morning for the Wall Street offices of Sullivan & Cromwell and got home late. He did devote Sundays to his family. Then, dressed in a top hat-poverty was not long with them-he paraded them to the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church near their four-story brownstone house on gist Street. Lillias remembers one Sunday when Lawyer Dulles delighted his brood and shocked his wife by putting on an act on the street balancing his top hat on his cane...