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...three husky tackles--Captain Ben Craig and Alternate Captain Neil Graham, both two-year letter-winners, or chunky 195-pound Tom Owen, a sophomore, who saw a good deal of action last year, despite a bad ankle and who is credited with blocking four men on one play against Presbyterian...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Winless Davidson Is 4-Touchdown Underdog | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

...were heading for California, where they will rest, visit relatives and decide where to settle. India, 58. said she really quit for her husband's sake. Herbert is a quiet, patient man who, to please India, changed his politics (from Republican to Democratic), his religion (from Episcopal to Presbyterian), and his name (from Threlkeld-Edwards to Edwards; India thought the hyphen was "ridiculous"). He had quit his job at the State Department last April, and he wanted to leave Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Up Anchor | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...pursuit of this goal, Dulles displayed the single-mindedness of a track star training for the Olympics. Dashing family hopes that he would follow his father into the Presbyterian ministry, he built himself a dual career as one of the nation's highest-priced international lawyers and outstanding nonprofessional diplomats. As senior partner of the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, he worked into a practice that included half the governments of Europe. His part-time public service, which got under way at Versailles when he acted as a counsel to the World War I U.S. Peace Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Broad-Picture Man | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...reception on the air base, Ike Eisenhower gave the sermon his endorsement, and told a little about his own taste in preaching: "Mamie and I were having an argument about what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Too Darned Dignified | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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