Word: protestantitis
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John Safran had come a long way to the job he had just lost. For twelve years a Detroit attorney (ten years in U.A.W. Lawyer Maurice Sugar's office), he abandoned the law in 1943 to study for the ministry. Only last June, at the age of 37, he...
He looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist...
With his 4,000-odd Protestant minority on the police force, perennially suspicious ,that their 13,500 Catholic colleagues were getting the breaks in salaries and promotions, Chaplain Nesbitt had something to work with. For his model he took the Catholics' 130-year-old Holy Name Society, which maintains...
¶ Announced (after pressure from Protestant churchmen) that presidential Envoy Myron Taylor would be brought home from the Vatican as soon as his job was finished (see RELIGION).
* Current count: over 200 Protestant, three Catholic denominations.