Word: bartel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before she starred on the Philco Playhouse (CBS-TV), in a tailor-made drama called Run, Girl, Run, Lee Ann Meriwether, 19, better known as Miss America of 1955, got some encouragement from two previous titleholders, Yolande Betbeze ('51) and Jean Bartel ('43). Asked why so few of her predecessors had made the grade as successful actresses, Lee Ann had a blandly optimistic answer. "A lot of the girls haven't wanted it," purred...
...Pastor Bartel read the service, his nimble hands and massive, tired old face came alive. He took his sermon text from...
...communicate spiritually with deaf-mutes takes sympathy as well as sign talk. Says Pastor Bartel: "It took me seven years to be able to speak to them fluently and understand them. The fact that they are frequently misunderstood makes them stick to their own kind . . . It takes patience, very much patience, to win the confidence of such people...
Soon his flock must learn to trust a new shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
Some 700 of Berlin's deaf-mutes are members of the church. Once they worshiped in Berlin's Evangelical cathedral, in the Soviet sector. As the cold war grew hotter, many West Berlin members were afraid to go there, so Bartel borrowed St. Matthew's, in the U.S. sector, to hold Sunday afternoon services. Before he retires, he hopes to find and equip a church which the deaf-mute worshipers of West Berlin can call their...