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...bearded Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks, and delegations from the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorians of Iraq and Syria, the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia...
John did nothing to remove the great doctrinal obstacles that bar the way to ecumenical unity; but by his example of love he encouraged church leaders and scholars to join in discovering how much of the Christian faith they shared. Says Dr. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council: "He changed the history of church relations...
...When Dr. Willem J. Kolff visited Boston in 1947 with the design for an artificial kidney to filter waste products from the blood, he had no idea that he was laying the foundation for today's flurry of kidney transplants...
Elaine de Kooning, the amicably separated wife of the famous Willem de Kooning, is an abstract expressionist to whom portraits "have always been a passion." Her pictures are hardly the sort that a board of directors would buy to put in a frame marked, "Our Founder...
...some ways an even more spectacular career. Janis is not known among his colleagues as a discoverer, but he has a good eye for properties that others have already started on their way. It was to Janis that Pollock finally went, and so did Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits...