Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis the city's 18 Presbyterian churches chose for their local moderator (highest office) the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, Alabama-born Negro pastor of small, spic & span McPheeters Presbyterian Church. Said Mr. Johnson: "I would rather not have had it. I did not seek it. I would rather seek humility...
...Newton Center, Mass., famed old Andover-Newton Theological Seminary called the Rev. George Dennis Kelsey to teach Christian Ethics at its summer school. Born 34 years ago in Columbus, Ga. (his parents both teach in Griffin, Ga.'s public schools), Mr. Kelsey hung up one of Andover-Newton's highest student scholastic records a decade ago, is now finishing a year's Rosenwald Fellowship at Yale's Divinity School. In the fall he will go back to teaching philosophy and religion at Atlanta's Morehouse College...
...Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass. (TIME, May 8, 15) got home from Moscow last week. He arrived in the U.S. by plane via Alaska, where, finding himself short of funds, he borrowed $200 from a U.S. Army chaplain at Fairbanks. To photographers at Seattle he shouted: "You should be at the front fighting instead of staying at home taking pictures." At reporters he wagged a stubby finger: "I am a tired man. It is good to get home but I have no other statement to make." When they persisted, he threatened to "give somebody a trimming...
Sincerely yours in Christ, Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski." Said Apostolic Delegate Amleto Gio vanni Cicognani in Washington: Father Orlemanski has not "contacted the Apos tolic Delegation." He also said that Father Orlemanski, "like every other diocesan priest is directly subject to his Bishop." Last Sunday Father Orlemanski did not officiate at the four Masses attended by most of his 3,200 parishioners. By nightfall he had disappeared. Next day he was re ported to be suffering from nervous ex haustion. A complete rest was prescribed...
...Women Love Him." Sara Speaks's formidable Democratic opponent is the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes...