Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cook was born in Athens, Tenn., where the Negro J. L. Cook High School bears the name of his father, a Presbyterian minister. As a boy he learned the clarinet and piano. He never made the big time as a jazz pianist. But as a good "paper man" (i.e., a musician who can read, write and arrange music) he got a job with a Harlem music publisher, later with Q.R.S. in The Bronx. He has made over 20,000 arrangements for pianola rolls...
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, now 56, and a spinster, broke with her family's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian traditions years ago when she stalked from church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also...
...time that the Council followed the Detroit Pastors' Union, which had dropped the restrictive word. He and a committee appointed to revise the bylaws deleted the word. But the Council's directors, led by Dr. Joseph A. Vance, 78-year-old pastor-emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church and first president of the Council, promptly restored...
...FRED LUCHS Community Presbyterian Church Athens, Ohio...
...Episcopalians have gone 30% over their quota. Lutherans and the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) have supplied all their chaplains for 1942. The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern), whose educational standards are also high, is somewhat less militant than these other three and is running slightly behind its quota...