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...theology, Manhattan's famed old (founded in 1825 ) Broadway Presbyterian Church is conservative: its ministers have always been evangelical, fundamentalists who adhere strictly to the Westminster Confession. By contrast, the Presbytery of New York-a group of ministers and elders from Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island who form a sort of churchly senate-tends toward liberalism; influenced by the open-mindedness of Union Theological Seminary, it is one of the forward-looking branches of the United Presbyterian Church. Over the years, the presbytery has more and more frowned upon the Broadway Church, especially since the church serves...
...Bronx County Democratic leader Charles Buckley was another of the Mayor's targets. Wagner said he hopes to have Buckley removed from both the County leadership and from his seat in the House of Representatives but declared that Buckley's "evil influence is greater as county leader...
...York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...
...will open their 1962 campaign against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park this afternoon. About 15,000 are expected to be in the stands when the umpire calls "Play ball" and the spine-tingling crack of horsehide against tempered ash signals the start of another season. Actually, the Bronx Barons, the New York Yankees, are probably going to win again, but it will be fun deluding ourselves for awhile...
...said later, "I never got such attention before." At one point, it appeared that as many as 17 out of New York's 21 -member Democratic delegation might vote against the bill. The Administration enlisted a pair of warring New York leaders - Mayor Robert Wagner and Bronx Boss Charles Buckley - to cooperate in putting the heat on the delegation...