Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a dean beset by a hornet at Commencement, Princeton University has grimly done its dignified best during the past three years to ignore the tormenting attacks on its policies and faculty by the Rev. Dr. Hugh Halton, 44, a witty, articulate Dominican priest who is the chaplain for the university's Roman Catholic students. Halton's general charge: Princeton is a center of "moral and political subversion...
...residents tell us it's all right to take them out to the cemetery when they're dead," says the Rev. Harry Wolf, director of Detroit's Luther Haven, located in a busy shopping area. "But in the meantime they want to stay near the activity of life." Adds Director Frank C. Selfridge of Evanston's James C. King Home: "They're not interested in the birds and the bees. They want to see the world go by." Doctors approve moving the old people downtown because it is a morale booster that staves off loneliness...
Died. The Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 55, eloquent pastor of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church (since 1944), author of liberalized gospel (The Urge to Persecute); of a heart attack; in Washington. Davies often used his well-attended sermons to dissect current events: when fellow traveling was still in vogue, he prodded U.S. liberals; when Congressional Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon...
...heavily Negro southwest Chicago, a similar milestone was passed last week when Normal Park Baptist Church installed the Rev. Merrel D. Booker, a Negro, and the Rev. Fred R. Tiffany, white...
Purely Christian. Founder of this remarkable church was a Congregational pastor from Boston, the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, whose love of "gay, wicked, learned, royal Paris" was mixed with grim Yankee misgivings: "One may live in Paris and feel that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees...