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...this proposal with that for a new all-black college in California detailed by W. H. Ferry of the Center for Democratic Institutions. Ferry's rationale is printed in the recent March issue of The Center Magazine, followed by comments on the proposal from Robert M. Hutchins, Neil Jacoby, Stringfellow Barr, Harrop A. Freeman, and a black graduate student, John C. Barnes...
...Cogley, lack the "usual and necessary journalistic anxieties and deadline mentality." Center, nevertheless, boasts such skilled writers as Harry Ashmore, onetime editor of the Arkansas Gazette, who is now executive vice president of the Center; Military Critic Walter Millis, who has been examining proposed changes in the draft; Classicist Stringfellow Barr, who has tried to draw some lessons from ancient times to apply to the present-day U.S. (one of them: Woe to the nation that puts too much faith in force). Far from being abstract, their writings clearly bear the imprint of their personalities...
Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...their meaning. There were neighborhood kaffeeklatsches at which parents discussed ways of raising the moral standards of their teenagers. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, who once taught economics and sociology at Roman Catholic colleges, lectured on the moral problems of political responsibility, while New York Attorney William Stringfellow, an Episcopal lay theologian, addressed the bar association on law, conscience, and civil rights...
Unapologetic Jeremiads. Such trenchant comments have made Lawyer Stringfellow one of the most persuasive of Christianity's critics-from-within; Karl Earth, on his U.S. trip in 1962, referred to him as the man "who caught my attention more than any other." Now 36, Stringfellow gave up his street-corner practice in Harlem two years ago to form a midtown Manhattan law firm, but he still takes many cases on behalf of the poor. During the academic year he delivers about 20 lectures a month, most of them sharply critical of organized Christianity's pretensions. He is fond...