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Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, wearing a pale blue dress of silk shantung and carrying a bouquet of spring flowers, and Nelson Rockefeller, 54, were married by the Rev. Marshall L. Smith, a Presbyterian who is pastor of the interdenominational Union Church of Pocantico Hills. Margaretta is also a Presbyterian; Rockefeller is a Baptist. Only a dozen persons, members of both families, were present...
...manuscripts and archaeological finds to a more exciting task: the creation of a Bible translation common to all Christians. In France and Germany, Protestant and Catholic scholars have jointly begun work on new translations of the New Testament; Catholics are working on an interdenominational Bible now being edited by Presbyterian Scholars William F. Albright and David Noel Freedman...
Died. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, 82, director of surgical service at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1921 to 1946, a reserved and humble man born of American missionary parents in Persia, who in 1935 performed the first successful operation for removal of cancer of the pancreas (still known as the "Whipple Operation"), in 1936 was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery, the highest certification organization of a general surgeon's training and competence; of a heart attack; in Princeton...
...commencement exercises, which will begin at 11 a.m. on June 12, will be held in the Radcliffe Yard. Mrs. Bunting will also address the Class of '63, and present diplomas to the graduating seniors. B. Gibson Lewis, Jr., minister of the First Presbyterian Church of East Aurora, New York, and chaplain of this year's Commencement, will deliver the traditional closing prayer. This June, for the first time, Radcliffe graduates will receive Harvard diplomas...
Against Catholics. "The scars left by the Reformation struggle are still evident in the treatment Protestants give Roman Catholic attitudes and behavior toward them not only in the past but in the present," Olson observes. Although properly noting that many Catholics are opposed to religious persecution, one Presbyterian text warned: "The Roman Catholic Church has never formally disavowed the principle behind the Inquisition." Another read: "Personal relationships with clerical and lay Catholics can be cordial and cooperative, but ecclesiastical relationships are almost impossible...