Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Café Society Downtown isn't the first place Nellie has crowded with admirers. People have been listening to her ever since she was eight, when she played the organ in the Baptist Church in her home town of Lake Charles...
...from his job. One night he visited the restored, 195-year-old Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, was ushered in by Colonial-style linkboys to see a revival of David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens. On Sunday he walked eight blocks to Washington's First Baptist Church, where he gave a little talk to the Sunday-School class...
...still leaves a healthy segment of local manhod to choose a team from, as one of B.U.'s proudest boasts, published in Football Facts, is that its enrollment "includes more Congregationalists than are to be found in Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges, both of them established by the Congregationalists: more Baptists than in the Baptist Colleges . . . Bates and Colby: more Episcopalians than in Trinity: more Methodists than in the Methodist colleges of Wesleyan, Connecticut, and Wesleyan, Georgia, combined: more Unitarians than in Harvard: and more Roman Catholics than in Boston College...
...Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
...diamond stickpin which had been his campaign badge, lay in state at the Dream House. The U.S. Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened to the services via loudspeakers...