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...Allen M. Barr, Worldwide Business Manager
...ones nearest the cups. In this way, he clearly outplayed the competition. Tze-Chung Chen, a gentle-spoken Taiwanese capable of shooting 2s on par fives and 8s on par fours, performed both of these wonders and lost the championship by a stroke. So did two others. Had Dave Barr, an ample Canadian, only believed he could have won the Open, he probably would have. South African Denis Watson's eternal miscalculation was % in loitering longer than the allotted ten seconds over a lip-hanging putt. The ball vindicated him by sinking out of sight within 35 seconds, though Watson...
Brewster's Millions shows Pryor borrowing bits of the Murphy magic. Walter Hill directed Murphy's first hit, 48 HRS. Harris and Weingrod wrote Murphy's funniest movie, Trading Places. Their plot, based on the old George Barr McCutcheon wheeze, has an aging minor-league pitcher bequeathed $300 million on the condition that he spend $30 million in the next 30 days...
...method and his message. Conservative theologians maintain that he is mass-marketing an ersatz, individual-centered gospel that glosses over the troublesome doctrine of sin. Mainstream clergy are disturbed by Schuller's zealous push for conversion and his carnival-barker style. "His success-oriented message," says Congregationalist Browne Barr, former dean of the San Francisco Presbyterian Seminary, "is a happy optimism; it sells nicely, but it is just very shallow...
Says Schuller: "I'm trying to be a source of emotional nourishment to people." People, he adds, who would ordinarily have nothing to do with a church. As a salesman, Schuller has few peers. Praising his marketing savvy, Barr says, "Most churches are having difficulty attracting new members, so what Schuller has done cannot be overlooked...