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...view of your explicit mention of my name in reporting the recent Evanston meeting of the Methodist Federation for Social Action [TIME, Sept. 17], kindly permit me [to say that] on my motion the Federation unanimously adopted a statement . . . specifying five irreconcilable differences between "Christianity and the atheistic Marxian Communism of our day." . . . [Such an action] leaves no basis for the suggestion implicit in your report that the real aim of the Federation is to "promote Karl Marx." The Federation's only objective is to promote Jesus Christ. ALBERT E. BARNETT Emory University...
...World War II, John L. Peters watched teen-age G.I.s die in his arms. He saw other kinds of suffering too. He never forgot the hungry Filipinos who picked food from his regiment's garbage pails. Back in his job as professor of religion at Oklahoma City University, Methodist Peters read with profound attention how the misery that he had glimpsed in Asia was being exploited by Communism...
...Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, was forced to default a doubles match and report for duty with the Navy. ¶The University of Texas football team, eleventh in the pre-season rankings, over seventh-ranked Kentucky, 7-6; in Austin. Other notable football victories: Georgia Tech over Southern Methodist, 21-7; Fordham over Missouri, 34-20; Michigan State over Oregon State, 6-0; Southern California over Washington State...
Purple Heartbeats. In Scranton, Pa., the Times announced that "Edgar Clarkson and Anna Mae Thomas will be wounded in Lenoxville Methodist Church...
...Albert Barnett, professor of New Testament at Atlanta's Emory University, insisted that the worst thing that anybody could say about McMichael is that he is a "naive, noble Christian." Said Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Detroit's Central Methodist Church: "His is a crystal-clear Christianity which we must cherish. He is the one symbol on whom we can all agree. He is our flag. If you haul down this flag, you virtually capitulate the liberal cause in the Methodist Church...