Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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More Than Nails. Wheaton's fourth president, 59-year-old Dr. Victor Raymond Edman (a minister in the Swedish Mission Covenant Group), sees the Bible and science as two separate systems of knowledge. "Jesus doesn't choose to speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could, but he doesn't. Science helps us understand a great deal about the universe, but not about the creator of the universe and his personality." How about the theory of evolution? Says Dr. Russell Mixter of the Plymouth Brethren, zoology professor and chairman of the biological sciences department...
...smoky recesses of a Manhattan cellar known as the Village Gate, Folk Singer Josh White was strumming Scarlet Ribbons and Saint James Infirmary. Uptown, at the 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A., a group known as the Tichman Trio (clarinet, cello and piano) was threading its agile way through the chamber music of Beethoven and Brahms. Between the two -and a couple of blocks east of Carnegie Hall, where the Boston Symphony was unfolding Gustav Mahler's massive Symphony No. i-choir and soloists at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue were launching into Beethoven's stately Missa...
...Leader appealed to the Texas Medical Association, composed of delegates from county societies. The state group held a more judicial hearing, solely on the issue of whether Dr. Leader's basic right of free speech could be curtailed in the name of loyalty to the county society. Dr. Leader argued that on a public issue, his duties as a citizen took precedence over his obligations as a physician. But last week the T.M.A. upheld the censorious Harris County Medical Society...
...began singing at benefits -some nights for Negroes, some nights for whites. Soon she joined a traveling group called The Black Manhattan Brothers (eleven men and Miriam), and for three years she barnstormed all over Rhodesia, the Belgian Congo and South Africa. "The bus often broke down," Miriam remembers, "and after the first five months I was crying all the time. But they kept telling me the show must go on. We always managed to get there on time...
Miriam finally left the group to join a touring musical variety show, then got the female lead in a Negro jazz opera called King Kong (based on a true story of a prizefighter who killed his mistress). In 1958 restless Singer Makeba applied for a passport, and after a year's wait she was on her way to London. From there she moved on to Manhattan's downtown Village Vanguard, then uptown to the Angel. The little girl from Prospect Township is making $750 a week, which could be eight years' rent for a native family...