In the 270 years of its existence, First Church in Newton, Mass, has had only a dozen pastors. Its last one, Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley, went last autumn to Boston's musty Union Congregational Church which he soon titillated by calling in an interpretative dancer named Eleanor Schirmer (TIME, Dec. 31). Last month the call of First Church's congregation of 1.013 sedate suburbanites for a successor to Mr. Bradley was answered by no less a person than the Moderator of the Congregational & Christian Churches Rev. Dr. Jay Thomas Stocking. The new shepherd will...
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