Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's old act. As Herod's stepdaughter, she covered more mileage on foot, belly and back than any Salome in memory. But she gave an overpowering impression of the willful, depraved teenager, from her disheveled entrance to her final kisses on the lips of John the Baptist's severed head. Soprano Goltz (a strikingly versatile singer with a repertory of 116 roles, ranging from Musetta to Elektra) is most famous for her appearances in Richard Strauss's operas in Vienna, and last week she proved why. She sang the fiendishly hard music with complete mastery...
...Bethany Baptist Church...
When John F. Carrington of the Baptist Missionary Society of London reached his new post in the Belgian Congo 14 years ago, one thing struck him especially: though there was neither telephone nor telegraph around, everyone in the village seemed to know exactly when he and his wife would arrive. The experience so impressed him that Carrington embarked on a second career of his own. Today he is the world's top white expert on the language of the Congo drums...
...three-times-a-week churchgoer (Presbyterian) and a religious magazine editor, I'm so well inundated with religious topics that it takes a really outstanding report like yours on Baptist Billy Graham [TIME, Oct. 25] to bring forth a comment. It was splendid...
...started a drive to swap Bible story cartoon books for commercial comics. For every comic book a child brings in, Miss Lilyan Doss, manager of the store, will trade, without charge, any one of the following: Jesus in Jerusalem, The Story of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, John the Baptist and Jesus in Galilee...