Word: evangelistic
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Linkletter, who described himself as the "adopted son of an itinerant shoe salesman and evangelist," told of set-backs as well as triumphs in illuminating his career...
Naturally, the competition is warming up. Last week Manhattan Management Consultant John Diebold, a leading evangelist of the computer and its potential, joined with Commercial Credit Co. and Bankers Leasing Corp., a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific railroad, to form Diebold Computer Leasing Co. The firm, which will specialize in leasing the latest third-generation computer equipment in the U.S. and Europe, starts with an impressive $85 million bankroll, of which Commercial Credit put up $75 million as a revolving loan. "We are set up to be the General Motors-in this field," says Diebold. "The whole thing is structured...
...Actor Sidney Poitier won an Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short and slight to be put between hard covers, William Barrett (The Left Hand of God, Woman on Horseback) tells it with artful simplicity, and Homer retains the dimensions...
...symbol is a camel, because, as one member explained, "it can go a long way without liquid"-decided to stick with a loser. Renominated for President was E. Har old Munn Sr., 63, an associate dean at Michigan's Hillsdale College. Named as his running mate was Topeka Evangelist Rolland E. Fisher...
...long, dry spell at the polls. Their most notable victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof as the beverages they would serve at any victory celebration...