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...Clarence Macartney's fellow students in Princeton Seminary's Class of 1905 felt a trifle awed when Freshman Macartney began setting out on Sundays to preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...
...Macartney's father, a strict Scots Covenanter minister, taught his children* a firm, old-fashioned set of religious beliefs. Young Clarence learned the fine points of oratory from an equally good source. As a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, he used to go down to the elder Bob La Toilette's office in the Madison courthouse to rehearse his debating speeches. The training helped make him one of the ablest preachers in his church. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, an orator himself, proposed him for the one-year term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A...
Orthodoxy & Battlefields. Moderator Macartney had led the fight of Presbyterian fundamentalists (he prefers the term "orthodox") to oust the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, leading theological modernist, from the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Attracted by Macartney's reputation, Pittsburgh Presbyterians asked him, in 1927, to take over the ministry of their own First Church, long one of the most influential in U.S. Presbyterianism...
...same day, General MacArthur flew to Korea (see WAR IN ASIA), taking along four correspondents-the Associated Press's Russell Brines, the United Press's Earnest Hoberecht, International News Service's Howard Handleman, and Australian Newsman Roy MacArtney. In the Bataan, when it flew back to Tokyo with MacArthur, was LIFE'S Photographer David Duncan, who took with him the first complete picture coverage of the war. (His photographs appear in this week's LIFE and TIME...
Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...