Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assurance that they could persuade Birmingham's segregationist politicians to go along. "We'll Kill You." It was a truce-but there was to be no peace. Saturday night, after a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Birmingham, two dynamite bombs demolished the home of the Rev. A. D. King, brother of Martin King. The minister, his wife and five children raced to safety just before the second blast. Suddenly, the street filled with Negroes. They hurled stones at policemen, slashed car tires. Within the hour two more bombs exploded at the Gaston Motel, headquarters of the demonstrations...
...Daniel A. Poling, editor of the Protestant Christian Herald: "I agree with those, and there are many, who will see him as a man who broke up a family in which there were four young children. As of here and now, I could not vote for him." Said the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Browne, president of the American Baptist Convention: "I am not sure that the standards of national life are helped very much by a public leader who, after he had broken up two families, says, "I'm very happy myself.' " In a biting editorial, Baltimore...
...sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying a bouquet of white dahlias and wearing a white satin gown, had three African bridesmaids for the ceremony on Fuller-Sandys' veranda, performed by the Rev. Richard Hughes, rector of an Anglican church at Que Que 64 miles away. That night, under a full moon, the wedded couple attended an African celebration in their honor. There was much leap-dancing and yelling around a campfire. During the evening Fuller-Sandys had a chance to open...
...Hagerty (I remember when he was a caddie at the White House); the Waldorf's Conrad Hilton (a man who is really mixing business with pleasure tonight); Mortimer Caplin (the man who can answer the all-important question, is this dinner deductible?)." After laughter, and Hope, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note that had begun it: "As we give thanks to those of every age, and especially our own who have merited and won the esteem and plaudits of their fellow men, infect us afresh with some...
...dinner, Editor in Chief Luce introduced a group of cover subjects with personal citations. Among them: A liberal statesman, one of TIME'S first employees, our first Washington reporter at $10 a week, the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge. For many years our badly unpaid adviser on religion, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, distinguished president of Union Theological Seminary. A brilliant, alltime-great district attorney, one of the very great governors of the state of New York, a tough fellow in a fight, and a good loser, Thomas E. Dewey. The only man who got honorary degrees from Harvard...