Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traced with horror the brand on his grandfather's back), he has talked his way to wealth and influence, become the dashing symbol of all that his constituents would like to be. An ordained minister, he succeeded his father in the pulpit of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning the pulpit into a platform, he set about denouncing political rivals, rarely failing to kiss his female congregant-constituents as they filed past after his spellbinding sermons. Elected to the House in 1944, he kept piling up fame and fortune, acquired a powder-blue Mark...
...falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried on their wedding day. Over the lonely Pacific, Boling. son of a Baptist minister, put the plane on automatic pilot, thumbed his favorite Proverbs, e.g., "The eyes of the Lord are in every place...
...Williams Jr. rode high and hard until this month, and then he swung the ragged blade of bigotry against the wrong people: Georgia politicians. Backing a rabid racist, Baptist Preacher W. T. Bodenhamer, to succeed Griffin in his scandal-scarred governor's chair, T. V. Williams Jr. even smeared Lieutenant Governor S. Ernest Vandiver in a headline charge that...
Ernestine Anderson was born in Houston, the daughter of a construction worker. In the neighborhood Baptist church she used to sing hymns with her grandmother. At 13 she was singing at the Eldorado, a big Negro ballroom, and after the family moved to Seattle, she became a regular with local bands. She went on tour with Bumps Blackwell's band, then with Johnny Otis, finally with Lionel Hampton, who took her to Manhattan. For a while she had a "steady gig" at a Greenwich Village spot, but she never attracted real attention until she went to Sweden...
Simple Notion. The son of a retired Baptist minister, Stan Freberg began to learn the tricks of beguiling an audience when he was only eleven. His uncle was Conray the Magician, and young Stan served as "coat stuffer" for that old vaudevillian. By 1955 Freberg was well established as a minor comic in TV and a far-out satirist on records. His liveliest: a drama of passion whose only dialogue consisted of the words "John" and "Marsha"; St. George and the Dragonet, a take-off on Jack Webb's Dragnet, which sold 1,000,000 records in three weeks...