Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
...Sunday, the President observed Mother's Day by sending a basket of red roses and snapdragons from the White House gardens to Washington's First Baptist Church, where they were placed on the pulpit in memory of his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, who died last year...
...publicity like a drunk for a bottle. But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion. Forty miles north, Jim and Jamelle got married in the Rockford Baptist Church. Twittered the brunette, 21-year-old bride: "I feel like I'm going around in circles." Gruffed the groom: "She's not the wife of the governor-she's the wife of Jim Folsom...
...Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sam F. Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...
...still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota (1927); U. of M.'s law school (1929). Married: in 1929 to Esther Glewwe, his childhood sweetheart. Children: Glen, 12; Kathleen, 6. Church: Baptist. Nickname: "Red" (to his old college mates), "Skipper" (to his close political friends...