Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro mother. Roy learned piety. Al though his father was a Roman Catholic, his mother took him to Baptist church, raised him on the precepts of the 23rd Psalm. Today. Campy sees nothing un usual in the fact that he sends his own old est son to a Presbyterian Sunday school simply because it fields a smart "Little League" baseball team...
...members of the twelve-man Soviet agricultural delegation visiting Iowa (TIME, Aug. 1) attended Sunday services at a Presbyterian church in Jefferson, fanned themselves with church programs, let their attention wander only occasionally as the Rev. Henry Needing preached on "Life Can Be Beautiful." The Russians bought new shirts for the church service, put money in the collection box, later said that religion, or the lack of it, should not be the criterion for friendship...
Conductor Sirpo abandoned his own conservatory in Finland when the Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife...
...crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let's not cut the puppy's tail off an inch at a time...
Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un-Christian." Pastor Shirey and six others had signed a minority report charging that the assembly erred in asking its 3,776 local churches to accept Negroes...