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...After sharp debate, the 94th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) voted 236 to 169 to condemn racial segregation as out of harmony with Christian theology and ethics...
Gradually, Pediatrician Conrad Riley and a team of other specialists at Babies Hospital (part of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) collected a handful of other cases showing most of Miriam's symptoms. The one that appeared invariably was the absence or extreme scarcity of tears while crying. Another thing the doctors noted: all the children so afflicted were of Jewish parentage. (The first proved exception, a Quaker child, was reported only last week...
...166th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) voted unanimous approval of a plan to unite its 2,581,580-member denomination with two other U.S. Presbyterian groups - the 718,791-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (southern) and the 2 2 2,201-member United Presbyterian Church of North America. Next steps in the merger: approval by two-thirds of the U.S.A. Presbyterians' 257 regional presbyteries, similar approval by the General Assemblies and presbyteries of the other two denominations...
Born in Chicago, Ferry came to Harvard 1908 despite the fact his father and brother were Yale men. But the alma mater of which he is proudest is New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head...
Skunks for Sears. Murchison got his start in business as a boy in Athens. His parents were of Scotch Presbyterian pioneer stock and, for Athenians, fairly well off; his father was head of the First National Bank. Nevertheless, young Clint, the second of nine children, used to get up at 3 a.m. to run a trap line for coons and skunks, sold the pelts to Sears, Roebuck...