Word: revs
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Midst laurels stood: the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 57, given the John F. Kennedy Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with...
...want to go full steam ahead until the old boiler bursts," says the Rev. E. Stanley Jones, whose fame overseas as an American evangelist is matched only by Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement meant only that he was freed from all church assignments to set his own unflagging pace. In 1963, for example, he spent six months hopping from one missionary outpost to another in Asia and Latin America, filled 736 preaching engagements, spent his vacation writing his 24th book, a spiritual autobiography. Last...
...presuming on my status as a charter subscriber to TIME to register my protest against your selection of the Rev. Martin Luther King as Man of the Year. I took one look at the cover and threw the magazine in the fire...
...REV.) THOMAS HARRIS...
Died. The Rev. Gustave Weigel, 57, Jesuit theologian at Maryland's Woodstock College, urbane and quick-witted author (Faith and Understanding in America), an editor of the Jesuit weekly America, and devoted ecumenicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Gloomy Gus" Weigel, as his friends called him for his visage, not his personality, played a major role in the 1960 Kennedy campaign with a speech stating that the church would not interfere with a Catholic president, acted as informal press secretary at the Vatican's Ecumenical Council, was widely hailed for his understanding of other religions, winning...