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Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does not tolerate killing, prohibits military service "until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
During the 41 years Dr. Coffin has taught at the Seminary, he has become internationally known as a Presbyterian liberal and an eloquent preacher. Under his care, Union grew in prestige and endowment (his old Yale friend Edward S. Harkness gave $1,250,000). After years of opposition by conservative Presbyterian groups, Dr. Coffin was last year elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A...
Like Dr. Coffin, Dr. Van Dusen is a leader in the ecumenical movement (the question of church mergers will again be discussed at this week's Presbyterian Assembly). He favored earlier U.S. intervention in the European war, is enthusiastic about foreign missions, believes that vigorous, outspoken church leadership is necessary for a just and durable peace...
...District Attorney he convicted the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond of running a still; in private practice, he won Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal talents. John Foster Dulles, 56, a tall, stooped, bespectacled Wall Street lawyer and impeccable Presbyterian, whose life work has been advising people on international affairs. Tom Dewey, he says, is the aptest pupil he ever had. A Princeton graduate, he studied international law at the Sorbonne, was secretary to the Hague Peace Conference when only 19. He directed the legal aspects of much European financing...