Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buchmanites were excited. "Dr. Buchman's return is naturally something we are worked up about,"explained one, frantically dusting the Oxford Group's headquarters in Berkeley Square. The old "Soul Surgeon"-who looks like Gandhi fully clothed and well fed on the very best melted butter-was back after seven years...
...Driberg, cocky Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...
Last week a group of the faithful were rapturously on hand to greet Founder Buchman as he landed to "cure . . . Britain's and the world's ills." Tired and feeble at 67, surrounded by a company of 105 disciples, the Founder's principal armament was a trunkful of plays "that answer the headlines." With these he plans to tour the provinces for several months, then settle down in the Group's newly purchased ?165,000 Westminster Theater...
...seven and she six. He is still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
Snafu (by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman; produced by George Abbott) is kid stuff that will flourish at the box office though it often falters on the stage. Telling of a 15-year-old war hero who is shipped home from the Pacific when his age is discovered, Snafu finds its fun in Ronald's thorny return to civilian life...