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...four-hour tour of Gettysburg, Civil War Buff Karl Barth, 76, astonished his guides with a fusillade of little-known facts. Led to the spot where the first large body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee...
Beginning this week, the better part of Protestant Christianity in the U.S. will be conversing with-and congratulating-Princeton Theological. The oldest, biggest and best of Presbyterian divinity schools is starting a 14-month celebration of its 150th anniversary. The most notable parishioner of Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church, Dwight Eisenhower, is honorary chairman of the celebration. Among the many churchmen who have agreed to lecture at Princeton in the coming months are such famed non-Presbyterians as Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary...
...hopes of hearing him. A week later Barth will repeat the lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. Oddly enough, Barth is as interested in seeing battlefields as debating with his fellow theologians. An amateur expert on the Civil War, he has insisted that his travels include a stop at Gettysburg...
...Grundy (the inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought out U.S. Representative James E. Van Zandt, 63, for Governor. At week's end they finally...
...same Father Corby. He resigned from the Notre Dame faculty in 1861 to become chaplain of General Thomas F. Meagher's famed Irish Brigade of New York, served the brigade as it fought heroically at Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. The Gettysburg statue is a duplicate of the one at Notre Dame, where he returned after the war and served two terms (1866-72 and 1877-81) as president...