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Elson's book points up the interesting origins of the two founders. Henry Luce: son of a devout Presbyterian missionary, born in China, his fondest memories of Fourth of July celebrations when the Americans clasped hands in the "hush of eventide" and sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America...
...carotid artery in the neck and the catheter is threaded through it. Earlier catheters were often stopped by friction and could not always be guided into the desired path at a junction or around sharp curves. The new model, developed in research at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has a magnetic tip. This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external magnet on alternating current. As the tip vibrates, it pulls clear of the artery's walls, leaving them undamaged, and "swims" forward. When...
...Disciples were organized at the beginning of the 19th century as a backwoods ecumenical venture that sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...
...group reportedly considered using Claverly Hall as a sanctuary. The original plan to harbor resisters and deserters in academic buildings was drawn up by the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, head of the Presbyterian Ministry at Harvard...
Mclntire began his crusade in 1936, when he broke with his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., charging that its foreign mission board was "discriminating against conservative missionaries" who preached the virgin birth and other fundamentalist doctrines. That same year Mclntire founded a splinter congregation, the Bible Presbyterian Church, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J. In 1948 he organized the I.C.C.C. as a counterthrust to the newly founded World Council, which he branded "apostate" and an "ecumenical monster...