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With Oxygen. Drs. Harold Atkins and William Seaman of New York's Colum bia-Presbyterian Medical Center told of progress toward licking a basic problem-radiosensitivity. Since Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X rays, in 1895, radiotherapists have been trying to get radiation to destroy diseased tissue while letting healthy nearby tissue survive...
...quite speechless!" exclaimed the Most Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Like everybody else at the Episcopalians' 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit last week, he was astonished at the speed with which the House of Bishops committed themselves to negotiate toward Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for a four-church merger (TIME cover...
...aside for debate on the issue, and an overflow crowd of spectators jammed the side aisles of the room in Cobo Hall to be present when the Episcopal fireworks went off. Virginia's Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr. moved the acceptance of the invitation issued by the United Presbyterian General Assembly, to begin talks looking to eventual union of the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and United Church of Christ.* He reminded his 190 fellow bishops that they were not passing on the merits of the Blake proposal as such, but on "an official invitation from the United Presbyterian Church...
...Guidelines for the merged church, as suggested by Dr. Blake, who is Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), include: A "diversity of theological formulations of the faith, and a variety of worship and liturgy": a "truly democratic government"; "visible and historical continuity with the church of all ages, before and after the Reformation...
Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...