Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a House Judiciary subcommittee holding hearings on the civil rights bill appeared the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Blake had made civil rights news several weeks earlier when he was ar rested in Maryland for participating in an anti-discrimination demonstration (TIME, July 12). Said Witness Blake to the committee, reading a joint statement endorsed by more than two dozen leading Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations: "Racism is blasphemy against...
...years at Westinghouse brought the company from malaise to new health, Cresap's own health has been bad ever since a bout with hepatitis last year. Recent complications brought doctor's orders to give up work completely, and last week Cresap underwent surgery at Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital for a gastric hemorrhage...
...failed to report our vigorous opposition to the flouting of the law by Dr. Blake. It is our contention that he is casting aside his Presbyterian creed and doctrine. Those who question Blake's action are not opponents of the Negro...
Atlanta's ambitious Emory University, which had searched a year for a new president, last week snagged just the man. He is Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 50, pipe-smoking provost of Cornell University. In grabbing Presbyterian Atwood, the trustees, who by charter are two-thirds Methodists, happily broke a tradition of Methodists as presidents that goes clear back to the school's founding 127 years ago. Atwood simply "swept this campus by storm," said Acting President Judson C. Ward...
...Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste ("Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?") into the stomachs of consumers, and now Stan is going to try to move some of the consumers into church. His newest client: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Says Satirist Freberg, who earns about $500,000 a year by gently kidding his employers' products: "They wanted me to try to sell Christianity, actually, and I said I thought we would reach more people if we narrowed it down to God." Freberg decided that blending...