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Higher Booty. Near Jackson, Miss., a burglar entered The Forest Hill Methodist Church, stole a safe containing 300 sermons...
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...
...sprawling (five major agencies plus a score of hospitals, colleges, research institutes) Department of Health, Education and Welfare, teetotaling Methodist Arthur Flemming, 52, brings one of the U.S.'s longest, best records as a Government administrator and personnel expert. In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt named New York-born Art Flemming, then director of the School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Washington's American University, as a Republican member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Flemming has been in and out of Government ever since...
...week on the stop-the-tests side. Items: ¶A widely assorted 140 Protestant clergymen and educators, including nine bishops, signed an appeal to all Christians to back up the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. 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...
Dial M for Methodism. In Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Robert Poston dialed a telephone number, heard a man's voice pleading for help, called police, who dialed the same number, got the "Dial-a-Prayer" service of the Catalina Methodist Church...