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After the terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...
Last week the president of Princeton's conservative Theological Seminary, Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with decry) raised his Presbyterian voice...
...Stewart Duke-Elder, Presbyterian minister's son who rose to become one of Britain's top eye specialists and Surgeon-Oculist to the King, had just come back from Buckingham Palace. His royal patient had added his personal honor to Sir Stewart's already impressive collection of medals and awards. The King, who reads through horn-rimmed glasses because of farsightedness, could thank Britain's foremost glaucoma expert for many a service to the Empire as well as to royal eyes. (Sir Stewart had also treated the Duke of Windsor, operated successfully on the Duchess...
...John S. Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church found "many helpful changes where the meaning of the text is ambiguous or obscure," but feared that the Revised Standard might "bring some of the atmosphere of the street into . . . the sanctuary...
...townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...