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Powell worked his way through two years at the University of New Hampshire, then set out for the West to earn enough money to finish his education. He rode circuit in Wyoming as a lay Congregational minister, got his law degree at Southern Methodist, and ended up in 1940 working for a young New Hampshire Senator named Styles Bridges. When Powell arrived at 8:14 a.m. on his first work day. Bridges exclaimed: "By God, you and I are going to get along all right." They did, indeed. As Bridges' political protege. Powell managed the offce...
...Conversations about unity" that would bring 19 million American Protestants into one church together will be held this week in Washington among leaders of the Methodist. Episcopal, United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian churches. Not since Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake proposed church union from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960 have churchmen met to discuss the plan's intricacies. This week's meeting is, at best, preparatory, but it may chart the course toward a Protestant summit conference...
When Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt blessed the bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church with $1,000,000 to build a university in Nashville 89 years ago, he set a style in largesse that has lingered on the campus ever since. Last week Vanderbilt University's current fund drive was close to its $30 million goal, and there was every sign that the school was well on the road to a renaissance...
Poets & Players. When Andrew Carnegie offered the medical school $1,000,000 in 1913, the Methodist bishops sensed an impending loss of control and vetoed the gift. The school's Board of Trust won independence in the Tennessee Supreme Court, settled down in the spirit of uncrowded excellence that Vanderbilt had attained. The first of poetry's Fugitives† arrived in 1915, and with the '20s came Vanderbilt's glorious but short reign as a football power. Then, for nearly two decades, the school lapsed into quiet ease...
Jackie Kennedy had extended the invitation after hearing from friends of Mezzo Bumbry's triumphs in Europe. The daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry began her career the way American Negroes often do: singing in the choir of a colored Methodist church. She studied with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara, Calif. But her career did not really get under way until she took the $1,000 in prize money she won as Metropolitan Opera Auditions finalist and departed in 1959 for Europe. There she got opera engagements in Paris, Brussels and Basel, last summer became...