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Parents nonpracticing Jews; he was baptized Presbyterian . . . Wife Eileen has Ph.D. in education; three daughters . . . Liked to gamble occasionally in student days (won the money for his wedding at Las Vegas), but now relaxes by reading (foreign affairs, economics), swinging a tennis racquet, skiing...
...have always believed in the Bible," says John Wright, 52, president of Chattanooga's 20-branch American National Bank. "I have always believed that Jesus was the Son of God." For a dozen years, in fact, Wright has been an elder of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church. But not until last year did he fully accept Jesus as a "personal Saviour." His decision came at a special series of "renewal" services at his church, where he heard a St. Louis minister preach on the famous text from the Gospel of St. John, in which Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must...
Died. Dr. Willard Cole Rappleye, 84, dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1931-51), who helped the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to develop into one of the nation's great hospitals; in Manhattan. Rappleye got his M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1918, worked in various hospitals in California and the Northeast, and taught hospital administration. Named dean of the medical faculty at Columbia at 39, he was a forward-looking educator who adapted the medical curriculum to keep pace with medical progress. In 1961, concerned with the disintegration of services...
...daughter of the chaplain at Macalester College (he is Presbyterian, while Mondale's father was a Methodist minister), Joan Adams was a freshman when Mondale was an upperclassman there. But, she says, he was such a "hotshot political star" that he never noticed her. They met on a blind date while he was attending law school at the University of Minnesota and became engaged 53 days later-a truly whirlwind courtship in view of the fact that Mondale was so involved at the time in state politics that he saw her only once a week...
...C.B.A. meeting is the central show of a big business that reflects the shift toward Evangelicalism throughout U.S. religion. The 2,100 C.B.A. stores, which emphasize Evangelical works, grossed $303 million last year and should reach $350 million to $375 million for 1976, estimates John Bass, 50, the able Presbyterian who runs the C.B.A. When Bass first began coming to the conventions, they were populated largely by folks in their 50s who ran dusty little Mom-and-Pop Bible stores. Religion bookshops nowadays are bigger, better located and reaching many more customers. According to the association...