Word: presbyterian
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...churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years, but this was the most direct and concrete proposal yet. The man who made it was a rugged, dimpled Presbyterian liberal-Eugene Carson Blake...
...Milford Haven, cousin of England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...privately wrote Vyacheslav Molotov: "If ever I succeed in taking power in my country, I assure you I will build a socialist republic." But he indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed by Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana...
...Secular Attempt." Last week the General Council of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. carried one of the few notes of sane balance on the religion issue. In one of its rare pronouncements the council voiced "outrage and concern at the exploitation of the religious issue in the campaign, which has caused the American people chiefly to hear extremists. The General Council resents equally...
Died. John Angel, 78, noted church sculptor of statuary in Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the huge bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a marble Last Supper in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church; of congestive heart failure; in his rural Sandy Hook, Conn. home. A spry, chain-smoking Episcopalian, Angel munched on gingerbread cookies as he fashioned his models in clay, contentedly resigned himself to the traditional anonymity of his art, thought modern art "merely a passing phase...