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...Hollywood last week, Actress Penny Edwards, 25 (Pony Soldier, Powder River), announced her retirement from the commercial motion pictures to devote herself to full-time church work. Actress Edwards, wife of TV Director Ralph Winters, was baptized a Roman Catholic, will now become a Seventh-Day Adventist. Recently, she said, she had felt a sudden surge of religious faith. "I felt myself bursting with love and happiness. At that moment, I wanted to have a baby. Then, two weeks later, I found I was pregnant." Turning to serious study of the Bible, she found that the truths of Scripture were...
Ronnie passed into the hands of indifferent relatives. When the Communists pushed into Seoul in June 1950, Ronnie was hidden in a cold shack, where he spent most of his time lying on a bare floor. There, after the fall of Inchon, officials of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital found him still alive amid the bomb rubble...
...destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces him that...
Last month a British orange farmer caught two Nguru tribesmen stripping his trees. In a scuffle with police, one Nguru was killed. The violence spread. In Mala-mulo, the American Seventh-Day Adventist mission, with 200 leper patients in its hospital, was besieged by jeering tribesmen. Bands of Ngurus roamed the green countryside, chopping down telephone poles, blocking roads, stoning whites' cars. One British teagrower was seized, forced to stand still while Ngurus sharpened their pangas on the soles of his shoes and made mock passes through his hair with the knives...
...Adventist in Los Angeles. "People tell me I should never end a show with such a sad number," she says. "Most entertainers end with a life-of-the-party number. Not me. I leave them way down. Sometimes I see people crying in the audience. I guess people like...