Word: hutchinson
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Supposedly, now he has nothing left. Army, Navy, and Princeton have been rated the teams to beat. But Barnaby doesn't see it that way. He may not have his giants, but no one else has giants this year. Symington has left Williams, Potter has left Navy, Hutchinson has left Army, and Foster has left Dartmouth, leaving only Princeton's Roger Campbell of last year's racquet aristocracy...
...Yale; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister of the General Council of the Congregational Churches and husband of the former president of Wellesley; the Rev. John C. Bennett, professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and colleague of Reinhold Niobuhr; and John a. Hutchinson, professor of Religion at Williams College...
...most conspicuous Red-hunters in the field . . . The irony of Mr. Matthews' career is underscored by the fact that, in his days of 'united front' leadership, he excoriated Protestantism as the dupe and servant of capitalism; today as the dupe and servant of Communism." Hutchinson sees the Matthews story as a tragedy for which the church must accept some responsibility. "I know there must be deep flaws somewhere in the man . . ." he admits. "Yet I cannot help believing that if the church had only been a little more willing to grant him a hearing and opportunity...
...united front with Communism as the way to end war, [and] became the first head of the American League Against War and Fascism, probably the most successful 'front' ever organized by the American Communists." He wrote a book, Partners in Plunder, in which he "proved," Hutchinson recalls, that "J. Pierpont Morgan owned the Episcopal Church, Andrew Mellon had the Presbyterians in his vest pocket, and as for the Baptists-well, hadn't Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller's kept preacher, once said: 'Personally, I dread the thought of collectivism ... as I would dread the devil...
...life. He had become a director and vice president of Consumers' Research (an organization formed to make impartial tests of consumer products and pass along its findings to subscribers). Employees of the growing enterprise shocked Matthews by going on strike. "Despite the pleas of liberal leaders," reports Hutchinson, "Mr. Matthews refused to meet the strikers' demands. To him they seemed not workers pursuing a normal course for bringing grievances to management's attention; they were mutineers." Matthews emerged from the dispute "an embittered man with a completely reversed outlook. He regarded himself as the victim...