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...with words like supracosmical and mythometaphysical, Carl Henry began his career in down-to-earth fashion. After high school, he started at a $12-a-week job selling newspaper subscriptions. By age 20 he had worked himself up to being Long Island's youngest newspaper editor, on the Smithtown Star. One morning in 1933, Church Dropout Henry found himself in a car discussing religion with an ardent layman. After three hours, he says, "I made a commitment to Christ. I knew my life was no longer my own." So even the faith of a rationalist was born...
Parents often are nonplussed. "My mother asked me to tell her if I smoked marijuana," says one high school girl in suburban Smithtown, N.Y. "When I said yes, all she said was 'I knew it. I knew it.' Then she started crying." Parents have many good reasons for questioning youth's resort to drugs. They know that under present federal and most state laws possession of drugs is a felony, and conviction can bar a person from many occupations for life. Drugs challenge the whole structure of adult values. In addition, most Americans' knowledge of drugs has been clouded...
...Quincy House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; William E. Kerstetter, of Dunster House and Greencastle, Ind.; John A. McCluskey of Quincy House and Middleton, Ohio.; George Q. Neville, of Quincy House and Winchester; Keith W. Sedlacek, of Quincy House and Valley Forge. Penn.; William F. Weld, of Adams House and Smithtown, N.Y.; and Barry L. Williams, of Leverett House and New Rochelle...
...Lyons, mathematics, of Adams House and New York City: Mare E. Saperatein, English, of Leverett House and Malverne. N.Y.; Barry M. Simon, physics, of Winthrop House and Brooklyn. N.Y.: Peter H. Wagschal, social relations, of Lowell House and Denver Colo.: William F. Weld, classics, of Adams House and Smithtown...
...chose Baptist Professor Carl Henry, 49, of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He agreed to take on the job for a year "to get things moving in the right direction." Henry is still keeping Christianity Today on the move. Raised as an Episcopalian, Henry was editor of the weekly Smithtown, N.Y., Star at the age of 20, when he underwent what he calls "a dynamic Pauline conversion." He studied for a divinity degree at Chicago's Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University, has written and edited 17 books...