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...Wednesday morning the doors of the Unitarian Church opened. The crowd rushed in. Some came with boxes, some with shopping bags, some with only their bare hands. They clawed, pushed, shoved. Sweet dowagers fought burly sophomores; professionals, amateurs, spectators, and bystanders joined the fray And all for old books and old Bryn Mawr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex Libris | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

While Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles W. Eliot won renown in Boston, his first cousin pioneered in St. Louis. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, who had toiled in a post office dead-letter department before becoming a Unitarian minister, founded not only St. Louis' first Unitarian church and Washington University but also an influential family; among his grandsons is T. S. Eliot. Last week, fittingly enough, Washington University (fulltime enrollment: 6,000) named a Boston Eliot as its twelfth chancellor. He is Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, grandson of Charles W. and fifth cousin of Poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Meet Me in St. Louis | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...hearty, pipe-smoking man of 54, Cambridge-born Tom Eliot was never much of a proper Bostonian anyway. A son of Samuel A. Eliot, the famed Unitarian minister, he pronounced himself a Democrat at the age of ten. He alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Meet Me in St. Louis | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...sooner had he agreed to discuss "The Radical Right-a Threat to Democracy" at West Los Angeles' Sinai Temple one evening last week than the Rev. Brooks R. Walker began receiving obscene and threatening telephone calls. Walker, pastor of the Emerson Unitarian Church, disregarded the callers. He joined Cinemactress Marsha Hunt and the Rev. John Simmons, a Lutheran minister, in a panel discussion about right-wing political extremists. "We've got to try to understand these people," Walker told the audience. "We must respect their right even if they don't always respect ours." Midway through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Bombs in the Night | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...this a religious work?" Littlejohn asked Robert W. Haney '56, minister at the First Unitarian Church of Boston, who was asked the same question in the recent Massachusetts court proceedings. Haney replied, "If by religious you mean it achieves respect for the divinity, then Cancer is not a religious book. If, however, you mean it expresses a man's ultimate commitments, then it is a religious book...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner and James R. Ullyot, S | Title: Counsel for Grove Press Defends Miller's Novel | 12/12/1961 | See Source »

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