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...season started, Pitcher Dean has got into sports headlines by complaining about umpires' decisions, fighting, pitching "bean balls" (TIME, June 7). Last fortnight, Pitcher Dean's readiness to cause a sensation took the new and unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean had called the National League's President Ford Frick and its Umpire George Barr "the two biggest crooks in baseball." Last week, when the Cardinals went to New York...
...Presbyterians- For the sixth time since the Civil War, Columbus, Ohio was host last week to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Among the 900 "commissioners" to the Assembly was one who had stayed away from its last meeting in Columbus four years ago, because of the "controversy and acrimony" he knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen...
During the year past, Presbyterian pacifists worked to get two-thirds of the Church's 276 presbyteries to vote to delete from its Confession of Faith the following: "Christians may lawfully under the New Testament, wage war." Last week they learned that the repealer had failed of adoption by nine votes...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...
...Still a Presbyterian is the Archbishop's little-known brother, the Rt. Rev. Marshall B. Lang, since 1935 Moderator of the Church of Scotland...