Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treigle is an intensely religious man. "I was raised as a Baptist," he says, "but my religion really is the Bible." He takes a moralistic view of his evil doings in opera: "What better sermon could there be than the destruction of Satan?" His wife approves for another reason. "He's so kind and gentle at home. That's probably because he gets all the meanness out of his system on the stage...
...daughter of a Baptist minister, she was raised by a widowed seamstress when the burden of nine children became too much for her father. After a teen-age marriage and divorce, she determined to seek a higher education. She worked her way through all-black Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., as a dishwasher and laundress, and financed her law studies at the University of Wisconsin with jobs as a library assistant and nurse's aide. In 1952 and 1953 she studied international law at London University...
...Skinner, 27, once had 22 notches on his knife handle for all of the "cuts" he had inflicted on enemies by the time he was a 14-year-old gang leader of the Harlem Lords. Now an ordained minister of the National Baptist Convention, the 215-lb., gravel-voiced preacher traces his vocation to an intense conversion experience-when he accidentally heard a radio gospel broadcast while planning a gang rumble. Skinner thinks evangelical churches must lead the fight for social justice because it "takes regeneration from Jesus Christ to change society...
...tumorous upper lobe of his right lung (a biopsy proved the growth malignant, but surgeons think that they got it all, believe no further treatment will be necessary); James F. Byrnes, 90, former Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, Democratic Senator, from and Governor of South Carolina, at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S C., recuperating and off the critical list after a near-fatal heart attack; Ford Motor Co. Vice President Benson Ford, 50, rushed from his office to Henry Ford Hospital by brother Henry II and under observation after a reported "angina attack...
...helps lay irrigation pipe, frets about his cattle and the weather, works on his memoirs and papers, entertains a few close friends, watches an occasional movie in a converted hangar at the ranch (he invariably falls asleep). Sundays, he usually goes to one of the churches around Johnson City-Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran, it hardly seems to matter, as though he were facing God as an equal and the intermediaries were supernumerary. He is fit and tanned, relaxed and happy...