Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fledgling from the U.S. Army air base at Dalhart, Tex. last week bungled his navigation by 45 miles: he mistook the lights of Boise City, Okla. (pop: 1,144) for his practice target. Aiming straight at the Baptist church and Forrest Bourk's garage, he loosed six practice bombs (each bomb: 4 lb. of powder, 96 lb. of sand and shell). The noise of the explosions roared through the sleeping town...
...Poling, pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, has been deeply touched by war. His son, Army Chaplain Clark Vandersall Poling, to whose memory the book is dedicated, died last February in the sinking of an army trans port in the North African campaign. He and three other chaplains (a Methodist, a Roman Catholic, a Jew) gave their life belts to soldiers who had none, were last seen kneeling together on a canting deck in their final prayer...
...printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
...graveside is dedicated by extemporaneous prayer. Lieut. Francis W. Read, an Episcopalian from Glendale, Calif., and Lieut. Clarence J. Merriman, a heroic Baptist of Shawnee, Okla., who has been under fire as much as any soldier, alternate in reading the committal service...
Last week the Navy gave him a clerical jumping-mate. Assigned to the same training was Chaplain Ralph Everett Tupper, 34-year-old former pastor of South Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass...