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...Charlie Shedd dropped to his knees during a morning meditation in Oklahoma and prayed: "Dear God, I've tried for 15 years to whip this problem of obesity . . . I've been on banana diets and eaten red meat. I've taken pills and bought reducing belts. I've read books and attended lectures, joined clubs and enrolled in courses. But I'm still fat ... I need help...
...Charlie Shedd, now pastor of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church of Houston, lost 100 Ibs. (from around 300 to 195) over a three-year period of prayer and medically supervised fasting, which he describes in a new book, Pray Your Weight Away (Lippincott; $2.95). "The spiritual approach to reducing," writes Pastor Shedd, "is a sure road to healing your obesity, permanently." But certain preconditions are necessary...
...most part, one of the dominant characteristics of the new young Christians is not their concern with social service but their preoccupation with finding themselves. "Religiously," says Clarence P. Shedd, emeritus professor of Christian methods at Yale, "it is a wistful generation, tired of living on 'snap judgments' and seeking enduring foundations . . . This does not mean a 'return' to religion or a 'revival' of religion. Rather it means that these students are seeking to come to grips with the basic problems of faith and living. They are asking not superficial but ultimate questions...
Radcliffe's softball team trounced a Pembroke squad, 12 to 2, yesterday at Providence. Edna Bogardus pitched for the Annex and Sally Shedd hit a triple, batting in four runs...
...Shedd, who had taken a leave of absence to work for the publishing firm of Simon and Shuster, was a son of Henry D. Shedd Jr., an executive of the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, and a grandson of Monroe County Judge Henry D. Shedd. The 21-year-old victim, a graduate of the Allendale School in Rochester, is survived also by his mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinlan Shedd, and by a brother, Gordon Shedd...