Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atlanta. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sutton lived in a grey, asbestos-shingled cottage (rented) in a solid, modest, workingman's district. Ted Sutton, 38, was a truck driver for the Railway Express. On Sundays he was an usher at the Baptist Church, sang in the choir...
Members of the cast included the choirmaster of the First Baptist Church, two Converse College students, a voice teacher, a movie usher, a private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College, and the guiding spirit of the festivals. A Chicago-born musician who has won a Pulitzer music award and two Guggenheim fellowships, Bacon has composed sensitive songs, witty orchestral works, tuneful light music. Last year the League of Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers...
...Burma-born Gordon Seagrave of the American Baptist Mission (TIME, April 13). Seagrave called to the British liaison officer: "Try to get us some food. I have not a bite in the house. Some of these soldiers have not eaten for three days." As I went out the British Friends' ambulance units were bringing in more Chinese wounded in American jeeps; all of them would be handled by Seagrave, who was the only surgeon. The house was full of wounded. When he buried two dead, under the moon, he said: "Now that the shooting has started, we have...
Missionary Case can find food in Burma if anyone can. He introduced almost the first vegetable garden to that jungleland. Burma-born son of a Baptist missionary from New England, he went back there after finishing his U.S. training in 1913, has preached pigs and eggs to the Burmese ever since. After a hard struggle he founded his school in 1923, to train dirt farmers in a four-year course and send them back to the villages to teach their fellows the fine art of growing food...
Last November there were some 150 American Protestant missionaries in Burma, of whom more than half are still at their stations. Eleven women Baptist workers from Burma reached Manhattan last fortnight. Mrs. Seagrave was among them. She had brought her children back to the U.S. so that her husband could move freely with the Chinese Army, without worrying about his family. Until she left in January, she was her husband's chief anesthetist, once a week dodged bombs as ambulance chauffeur for a 170-mile run on the Burma Road...