Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical meeting that 15 drops make an acceptable sedative for a sleepless child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe 'toddies for toddlers,' " he intoned from the pulpit. "To give [alcohol] to children is to have them grow up with a taste...
Different from the Rest. Across the Columbia River in Kennewick. the Rev. Charles W. May, 40, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, announced himself in "complete disagreement." The pulpit, he went on, "should not be used to express personal views when they are contrary to the doctrines of the church...
...Rev. David Bronstein is no rabbi but a pastor, and the 100-odd members of his Chicago congregation, almost all of them born Jews, call themselves Hebrew Christians. Their group is the first of five organized Hebrew Christian churches in the U.S. (the others: Detroit. Philadelphia. Miami and Los Angeles). In 1934 David Bronstein founded the Chicago church-not formally affiliated with the others-out of a feeling that "I was chosen to bring the Jewish people to Christ...
Polar scientists have long speculated on what lies beneath the ice-covered surface of the South Pole, which is 9,200 ft. above sea level. Last week the best look yet beneath the Pole came from the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., seismologist, burly professor of geophysics at Boston College and onetime (1923) guard on a good B.C. football team. Jesuit Linehan's findings: the Pole is underlain by rock above sea level...
Those who avoided arguing with him found other cause for offense. His over-effusive greetings from half-way across the Yard were generally considered in poor taste. And the Rev. Sherrard Billings, another classmate, observed: "When it was not considered good form to move at more than a walk, Roosevelt was always running...