Word: presbyterian
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Skunks for Sears. Murchison got his start in business as a boy in Athens. His parents were of Scotch Presbyterian pioneer stock and, for Athenians, fairly well off; his father was head of the First National Bank. Nevertheless, young Clint, the second of nine children, used to get up at 3 a.m. to run a trap line for coons and skunks, sold the pelts to Sears, Roebuck...
Apropos Theologian Van Dusen's choice of which church to serve: his reasons for rejecting the Episcopal Church in favor of the Presbyterian aren't very good theology, nor correct in their implications...
...George Arthur Buttrick, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, hung some crape for the students of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.: "We have explored the planet to learn its secrets, and . . . our ills have multiplied so greatly that our mental hospitals cannot contain them," he gloomed. "It is poetic justice that a generation which has been seeking its own life now has to talk about itself in a psychiatrist's office...
...architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown." * In 1953, membership in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (Northern) boomed to a record 2,581,580, the denomination's headquarters announced. Sunday-school enrollment rose by 90,834-the largest gain in the church's history-to 1,684,415. An upsurge in U.S. church life was also noted by the 45 bishops...
Herbert Wells, 79, learned the fund-raising business as a partner in the pioneer firm of Ward, Wells and Dreshman, founded in Fort Worth in 1911. Son Lewis, 49, a wartime lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who had once thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister, set up his own firm in 1946, later decided to specialize in religious causes. That led to Wells Organizations...