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Bruce Barton, 80, author of best-selling religious books in the early decades of the century, 5 July 1967.

Smiley Blanton, 84, cofounded with Norman Vincent Peale the Religio-Psychiatric Clinic at Marble Collegiate Church in 1937, 30 October 1966.

Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, the first American member of the Sacred Roman Rota, the highest Roman Catholic court; named cardinal in 1967, 2 July 1968.

Frank N. D. Buchman, 83, founder of the Oxford Group Movement (later Moral Re-Armament) in 1921, an effort to organize a "God-guided campaign to prevent war by moral and spiritual awakenings," 7 August 1961.

Father Major Jelous Devine, 88, religious-social leader who in 1942 incorporated his following as the Peace Mission Movement, 10 September 1965.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, 91, the most popular Protestant preacher in the nation and one of the country's leading liberal...

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