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Nonetheless Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, retiring Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., went so far as to note that although "it is certain that for some reason, perhaps the Pentecostal spirit, church union is now a living issue," the hope of ecumenical union, including the Catholic group, seemed practically at an end, and that he was unaware of any valid steps having been taken during the past year, except in local situations, to encompass a Protestant union as a whole. Yet every minister of his organization, if he followed instructions, prayed and preached last Sunday...
Before that happened Dr. Hugh Thomp son Kerr of Pittsburgh, candidate to succeed Moderator Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee of Chicago, displayed his qualifications by an ingenious address. Dr. Kerr, 58, is pastor of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The past five years, since the reorganization of his church's boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including...
...away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits and-sits, oozes urbanity, overboiled coffee and Japanese prints, and almost succeeds in making the picture a bore. That it attains mediocrity instead of flat failure is due to the rest of the cast, notably William Boyd (not the William Boyd) who makes perhaps the smoothest gangster seen in these parts since the Wall Street Explosion. Paul Lukas as the flat foot causes one to wonder what, if anything, Law and Order is coming...
Died. Tom Brown, onetime mayor of Stratford, Ont., embezzler of $250,000 from his law clients, since Jan. 1 fugitive under false names (John Thomas Boyd, Eric Hauser); of alcoholism and pneumonia; in Mexico City. Accompanied by a lively brunette known as his sister, he arrived in Mexico during January, stayed at the best hotels, spent lavishly, moved to cheap quarters, stayed drunk his last three weeks alive...
...Cincinnati last week the oldest Episcopal Bishop in the U. S. consecrated the youngest Episcopal Bishop in the U. S. They were Boyd Vincent, 84, Bishop of Southern Ohio, native of Erie, Pa., Yale 1867, bachelor, onetime rector in Erie, Pittsburgh, resident of Cincinnati since 1889; and Henry Wise Hobson, 38, Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, native of Denver, Yale 1914, husband, onetime rector in Worcester, Mass., major in the 89th Division of the Infantry during...