Word: mccracken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under energetic President Henry Pitney Van Dusen, pioneer of the ecumenical movement, Union's topflight faculty includes Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr (vice president of the seminary) and John C. Bennett, Philologist James Muilenburg, such noted preachers as Methodist Dr. Ralph Sockman and Riverside Church's Dr. Robert James McCracken. But maintaining such a faculty, as well as housing a student body that includes more and more women and children (46% of Union's seminarians are married), is posing a problem...
...Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw its 1,800,000 members behind an appeal...
...CHARLES M. RUSSELL BOOK, by Harold McCracken. A fine serving of Americana. Next to Frederic Remington, "Kid" Russell was the most popular artist of the U.S. West. His pictures quivered with action, spoke with the light and loneliness of the wide open spaces he learned to love as a cowboy. Nearly 200 illustrations, 35 in color, together with a readable, sympathetic biography...
...beginning of the season, Heckscher was ranked seventh in the country, grouped with such near-great players as Cal McCracken, and Henry Foster. Now, however, he appears to have moved a bit past these men and is ready to make his bid for the top prize...
...somewhat sloppy Valentina is Rodgers and Hammerstein's eulogy of the theatre, "Me and Juliet." The show has its hits, but it also has songs like "The Big, Black Giant," which can only detract from the composers' reputation. Joan McCracken makes the whole business worth the splashy effect...