Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol that was opened last week. The room's purpose: prayer and meditation. Although sessions of both houses open with prayer, the Capitol has never before had a special prayer room. Three years ago Oklahoma Senator A. S. "Mike" Monroney. an Episcopalian, and Arkansas Representative Brooks Hays, a Baptist, introduced concurrent resolutions to set aside a place where legislators could pray or meditate without distraction.* After Congress finally approved last year, Capitol Architect J. George Stewart selected a small (17 ft. by 18 ft.) room just off the rotunda. Former occupants: the Republican whip, the Speaker of the House...
...Southern Baptist Convention (membership: 8,000,000) announced a "multimilliondollar" expansion program in radio-TV to reach 65 million unchurched people. Projects: extension of The Baptist Hour radio program to five new metropolitan areas, including New York City; a series of half-hour color-television programs; distribution of "pretested scripts" for live local TV programs to 30,000 Southern Baptist churches; construction of a $200,000 Radio-Television City at Fort Worth...
...there? Dale told about it, sitting in her dressing room between film retakes for TV. "I joined the Baptist Church at the age of ten, but I gradually drifted away. I belonged to a family in Uvalde, Texas that never had anything to do with show business, but that was my goal. So I eloped at 14. Naturally, it was a failure, but I did get one wonderful thing out of it-my son Tom. And it was Tom who led me back to the church...
...Dale and her son Tom, then 20, were sitting in Hollywood's Fountain Avenue Baptist Church. "Mother, how is your soul?" the boy suddenly whispered. Recalls Dale: "I said it was all right, but I knew it wasn't. I knew I was groping." "Why don't you give yourself to Christ?" said Tom. Dale went home and decided to do just that...
...fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled their hero? Last week the Baptist Pastors Conference of Greater Houston offered a possible explanation in a resolution, proclaiming "their disapproval of the way Gene Autry conducted himself during his stay . . . His drunkenness was a poor example before the boys and girls that admire him greatly." Autry, by then moseying around Kansas, called...