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...Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills. Smith violated the Presbyterian Church Constitution, which requires that persons divorced less than a year can be married only with special permission from the local presbytery. Happy was divorced from Dr. James Murphy in Idaho on April 1. Rocky from Mrs. Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller 14 months ago. Rockefeller is a Baptist; Happy, raised as an Episcopalian, recently became a Presbyterian. Both frequently attended Smith's interdenominational church in Pocantico Hills. Irrelevant? General press reaction was far less critical than that of the clergy. Many of the nation's newspaper editors seemed...
...Artist John La Farge (who claimed that he diverted Henry James from painting to writing) advised White that his bent was not for art but architecture; more money in it, too, and recognition. Architect White won both, designing such famed monuments as Manhattan's Washington Arch, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the buildings of New York University. But whenever he had an available moment, in summer trips through the Hudson River Valley and even during his honeymoon in Europe. Stanford White found time to draw...
Price succeeds the Rev. George A. Buttrick, a Presbyterian, who resigned in June, 1960. The Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson '51 has served as acting minister of Memorial Church since Buttrick's resignation...
...Southern Presbyterian Church is a gently, insistently conservative group, both theologically and politically. Its 928,056 members, 99% white, officially support racial integration, applaud those of their churches that practice it, do not chide those that don't. They see merit in testing the literal Bible by scholarship-yet many quietly hold that every word is true. They hearken more closely to Calvin than do their more numerous Northern Presbyterian cousins. They anxiously question the need to lose their identity in ecumenicism. Last week, though under the pervading pressures of world Christianity to become a bit more liberal, they...
...ecumenicism has to come, Southern Presbyterian conservatives prefer a face-saving union with the Reformed Church in America, a smaller, 230,210-member body concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. Yet Moderator McCorkle is not an unyielding roadblock to unity: "Eventually I think we will get together and all of the Presbyterian families will...