Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tales of Baptist missionary courage began coming out of war-harried Burma last week...
...gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...
...gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers. Chaplains are doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions and giving out Bibles to carrying dead and wounded under fire. Baptist Chaplain Lieut. Robert P. Taylor of Texas gave the most recent superb example of the chaplains' courage when, during an attack and under machine-gun and rifle fire, he helped carry the wounded to the Bataan jungles...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...
...Negro is not a Baptist," they sometimes say down South, "someone has tampered with his religion." Last week this ecclesiastical wisecrack got scientific backing from Anthropology Professor Melville Jean Herskovits of Northwestern, who declared in The Myth of the Negro Past (Harper; $4) that the river cults of West Africa predisposed Southern Negroes to favor the Baptist Church...