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Carter: The Deacon...
...first stop, at 7 a.m., was the studios of television station WHEC, where Eddie Meath, a local talk-show personality, asked if Carter used pep pills to keep going. Carter, a Baptist deacon who has sworn off even his occasional Scotch-and-soda during the campaign, smiled and said no. By 9:15, he had met with a group of would-be New York delegates in the Genesee Room of the Americana Hotel, talked with local civic leaders in the Corinthian Room, addressed a $10-a-plate breakfast in the main ballroom (he netted $500) and convened a press conference...
...museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted in 1626 when Rembrandt was only 19, the 25-in. by 19-in. discovery depicts the baptism of an Ethiopian courtier by Deacon Philip, as recounted in Acts 8. Defoer, 39, declined to name the painting's last owner or the purchase price. But he made no secret of his own pleasure at the acquisition. Burbled the scholar: "A work of this magnitude one finds only once in five lifetimes...
...satisfied with just peanuts, Carter worked on many community projects. As a deacon in the Southern Baptist church, he taught Sunday school and traveled to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts to organize new churches. In 1962 he decided to run for the state senate, and he was defeated?until it was proved that the cemeteries as well as the jails had produced votes for his opponent. The results were overturned and Carter entered the legislature...
Bizarre Stagery. It must surprise the parents to learn that Queen is an uncommonly educated lot. Mercury has a degree in graphics and illustration, and May has done graduate work in astronomy; Taylor studied biology and Deacon won first-class honors in electronics. Behind the bizarre stagery, in fact, Queen's musicianship is solid. Mercury plays the piano with competence. Although many of his songs suggest raw aggression, a gentler side can be heard in Seaside Rendezvous, a coy confection of muted harmonies and polite French phrases that is slyly reminiscent of potted palms and '20s hotel orchestras...