Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clinton Locy was a cattle ranch foreman in Southern California when a Baptist preacher persuaded him to go to church. He heard one sermon and decided to be a preacher himself. Last week he gave a sermon that lasted 48 hours and 18 minutes...
...record-breaking $103,500, came first. Others followed fast. Drummer Gene Krupa was drummed in by a corps of Aussie drummers beating out Sing, Sing, Sing. Crooner Johnnie Ray touched off the wildest teen-age hysteria in Australian history. Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was condemned by both the Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. Crooner Nat "King" Cole summed it up: ""Boy, no artist can afford to leave out Australia...
...firing of Wolf Ladejinsky reminds one of the slaying of John the Baptist to please the whims of a dancing girl. Surely the real reason for this firing is in the phrase "he has never been close to American farming problems and operations." Unlike the head of John the Baptist, Ladejinsky can be replaced. To cater to the whims of a few who feel an agricultural economist must farm with his hands is stupid. To say Ladejinsky is a security risk is to ignore what he has done...
...Annual Meeting of the Mass. Council of Churches a resolution was unanimously passed, asking President Eisenhower to release surplus food to China to relieve this famine. Many outstanding religious leaders in this nation support this program among whom are Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence; Edwin T. Dahlberg, former President American Baptist Convention; John Haynes Holmes, Minister Emeritus, Community Church, New York; Matthew W. Clair, Bishop, Methodist Church; and many others. The church at which I am minister has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the Mass. Council of Churches in this matter, and many ministers I know personally are preaching sermons...
Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, was moderator of a panel on "the effects of higher education on men-women relationships," sponsored by the Student Baptist Association of Boston in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church. The speakers were Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, and Dr. Carl Binger, Radcliffe Health Director...