Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony...
...Time for Timidity. Onetime pro ballplayer, onetime Baptist minister, Homer Rainey felt that he had been pushed too far. At a special faculty meeting on Oct. 12, he made an hour-long speech, cataloguing his troubles with the Board. "The whole matter boils down to two major issues," he said: "The issue of the freedom of the University . . . and the issue of the recognition of the proper relationship between a governing Board and the executive and administrative officers. . . ." He hoped the breach was not "so wide ... it cannot be healed...
...reading habits run to volumes on the Civil War, of which he has devoured thousands. His specialty: the Battle of Chancellorsville. He married his boyhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, whom he met in Sunday School when he was seven and she six. He is still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
...Sandefer once taught the subtleties of the lariat to the Kaiser, wondered what kind of Western rope trick this was. Just what was he cooking up with Gandhi, and did he have any "political aspirations?" To the first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...
Chaplain Laurel Garnett Gatlin was back on active service in the U.S. Navy last week. Said the 45-year-old Southern Baptist: "The Lord has overruled the injustices meted out to me in my removal from active duty by recalling me to do the thing I felt I had a right...