Word: willem
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Much in contrast to his years as a back room scholar. Cardinal Bea now keeps himself as much in the public eye as his 81 years permit. He answers more than 2,000 letters a year, and has become good friends with such non-Catholic clergymen as Willem Visser Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches; the Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, retired Archbishop of Canterbury; and Franklin Clark Fry, who last week was elected first president of the newly merged Lutheran Church in America...
...notable parishioner of Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church, Dwight Eisenhower, is honorary chairman of the celebration. Among the many churchmen who have agreed to lecture at Princeton in the coming months are such famed non-Presbyterians as Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth...
...Fugitive Kind. One of the most appealing paintings in the show is the small green figure by Willem de Kooning...
...sent Pollock prices skyrocketing. The Albright was the first museum in the world to buy a Clyfford Still and one of the first to buy a Henry Moore. It now has at least one work by almost every major abstractionist from the late Arthur Dove and Wassily Kandinsky to Willem DeKooning. Mark Tobey and Robert Motherwell. Today, says Knox-and not many in the art world would disagree-there is only one collection of abstract work that is better, the one in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...
...more dynamic than Amsterdam in 1948 or Evanston in 1954," said Manhattan Lawyer Charles Parlin, the Methodist layman who will serve as one of the Council's presidents. "It has been an extremely serious, united effort of giving directives for work." The Council's General Secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft (TIME cover, Dec. 8), agreed that "we have received pretty clear marching orders," although, he added cautiously, "some of them will have to be worked out a little further...