Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the Presbyterian men's school could have the money for a sorely needed science building-if it raised another $700,000. It did. Last week, as workmen hauled shiny lab equipment into the new building, Manhattan Millionaire Charles Anderson Dana, back in his Park Avenue aerie, busily unrolled blueprints from other...
...campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone to the National Presbyterian Church), found time late in the day for turkey with Mamie (who will not go on the big trip), Son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara (who will), the four Eisenhower grandchildren and two unannounced visitors. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell and her husband. Producer Frederick Brisson. (The Eisenhowers, confided Roz Russell to newsmen afterwards...
Married. Catherine Wood Marshall, 45, bestselling author (A Man Called Peter; Mr. Jones, Meet the Master; To Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed...
...National Council of Churches, the center has been two years abuilding on 32,000 sq. ft. of land made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...