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Last week, with the golden days gone, 65-year-old Muriel Draper died in New York's University Hospital, after nearly two weeks of suffering under an oxygen tent. With her was her dancer son, Paul Jr. Two years before, during his unsuccessful libel suit against Greenwich housewife Hester McCullough, who had labeled him pro-Communist (TIME, June 5, 1950), Paul had attempted to explain his mother -and in so doing had characterized quite a lot of U.S. intellectuals and their hangers-on. Said he: "She has made statements that are not so. They are not lies . . . They...
...Mennonite lay missionaries set out from their homes in Virginia as traveling evangelists. Lawrence Brunk and his brother George, a professor of Bible studies at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va., had pooled their resources (mainly $35,000 which Lawrence had made on his chicken farm). They bought a tent big enough to seat 1,500 people, a truck to carry it and a trailer for Lawrence, his wife and three children to live...
...their first meeting in Lancaster, Pa., Lawrence led the singing and George gave his maiden sermon, a vigorous appeal to elect for Christ and escape damnation, a topic which Mennonites have always stressed. The first night more than 2,000 jammed their way into the tent. Dozens were converted. Before the week was out, the Brunks had to order a new tent...
...Will Be Taken ... At their last big service in Waterloo, Lawrence, as usual, led the congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...
Three weeks of executive sessions ended last week in an ovenlike truce tent at Panmunjom. Major General William Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate, said angrily that the secret talks, undertaken at Communist request, had been "completely fruitless." General Harrison unilaterally declared a recess of one week, and walked out with his delegation...