Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a six-foot former coal miner whom Dr. Joseph Hakes, Baptist pastor of Huntington, W. Va., calls "a man sent from God," kept a solemn pledge. He was ordained a Baptist minister. His name: Park Tucker. His parish : Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chillicothe, Ohio...
...Shouting Baptist. The most spectacular of all is Jimmie Davis, who wrote the historic It Makes No Difference Now. A hard-boiled Louisiana politician, crack shot and ex-college professor, he last week declared himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of his home state. Local politicos conceded that the recent author of such twangy hits as Nobody's Darlin' But Mine and You Are My Sunshine (the rage of England) had a good chance of winning the election as well as the nomination...
...dapper, six-foot, sparely built "shouting Baptist," Jimmie Davis owns two redhill farms totaling 450 acres where he raises pecans and about 40 head of cattle. His wife is the touchstone by which Jimmie (who cannot read music) judges his songs. Says he: "When I have thought up a song, I run through it with my wife who's a graduate in piano from Centenary College. If she doesn't like it, it's going to be a smash...
...Flying to China, India, Australia was famed writer and preacher Daniel A. Poling. Pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, a worldwide youth organization, Poling will visit U.S. chaplains and troops, write articles for the Christian Science Monitor and the widely read monthly Christian Herald, of which he is editor in chief...
...Palmer never missed a Sunday at the Broadway Baptist Church back home in Fort Worth. His favorite hymn is still Take Your Burdens to the Lord and Leave Them There. In Sixth Ward grade school Sam was a boy soprano; at Texas Christian University, student manager of the Horned Frog football team because he was too light to play. One day freckled, redheaded Sam Palmer learned to fly. He left college to be an Army pilot...