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Phenix of Columbia-a onetime Quaker turned Presbyterian, an Army chaplain turned meteorologist, a physicist turned reverend, appears equally confused about the technique inherent in leading children to avoid "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in their adult lives...
...committee based at Yale may carry out Project Jarba. No definite plans have been made, but the Rev. William sloane Coffin, the Yale chaplain, said yesterday that he was "impressed by the worthiness of the project," and had written to CARE about details...
...call any doctors." But the family, worried by his ashen appearance, ignored the order. After the doctor arrived, Joe Kennedy, still wearing a sports shirt and golf shorts, was taken from bed and driven in a private ambulance with motorcycle escort to St. Mary's Hospital, where the chaplain gave him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church...
...eleventh annual Christmas mission to the nation's cold war outposts, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 72, regaled the troops with an account of his own frustrated military career. Back in 1918, His Eminence, then working on the archdiocesan newspaper in Boston, exuberantly bought naval chaplain's regalia only to be rejected by the Navy because he was too short. Back to the store went a determined Father Spellman to be fitted out in doughboy drab-whereupon he was foiled again by an archiepiscopal order freezing him in his Boston job. "I still visit the troops...
...that is a resounding ideal, Denver-born Author Phenix backs it up with rich personal experience. A Quaker turned Presbyterian, he majored in mathematical physics at Princeton ('34), became a life insurance actuary, a student at Union Theological Seminary, an Army meteorologist, an Army chaplain and a Carleton College professor of religion. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University with a thesis on theology and physics. He is married and the father of sons 15 and 16 years old. Last year he quit his deanship at Carleton because "I don't think college administrations are fertile sources...