Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where Quaker Hoover takes issue with tradition is the designation of the rider on the red horse as Pestilence ("and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
Died. Phil Cook, 65, jaunty, guitar-strumming comedian of early radio, best known as the "Quaker Oats Man" who could play as many as 13 different parts on one show in a baffling variety of voices; after long illness; in Morristown...
...Born of Quaker parents on an Ohio farm, Will Mullin grew up in Los Angeles, where he was enough of an athlete to run up an impressive blight of injuries, including ankles ruined at squash and softball. He decided by the seventh grade that he wanted to become a sports cartoonist, went directly from high school in 1920 to learn lettering in a sign shop ("Women's Philippine Underwear, 79?"), got his first newspaper job in 1923 doing illustrations for Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (now the Herald & Express...
Pennsylvania-born President Kerr, 47, spent his undergraduate years at Swarthmore, took his Ph.D. in economics at Berkeley, brought his Quaker's instincts for peacemaking to a series of stints as mediator in West Coast labor-management wars. His most notable effort: a long, painful arbitration during 1946-47 between longshoremen and shipowners. Says the dockers' boss, hard-mouthed Harry Bridges: "The assignment was not an easy one. He performed it with fairness and courage...
...human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their degrees. One of them: his daughter, Mrs. Lillias Hinshaw, 43, wife of Manhattan Public Relations Man Robert Hinshaw (a Quaker) and mother of four. Next fall Bachelor of Divinity Hinshaw may enter the Presbyterian ministry, which has been open to women only since...