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Asch's Paul is the brilliantly dynamic prophet and organizer of the early Christian Church. He was driven by an ineluctable faith, by visions no less intense. No danger stopped him. But St. Paul was not only an evangelist. He was pugnacious and something of a politician. Says Novelist Asch: "The center of his world was his 'I' . . . which measured, judged and defined." Paul lacked that "soft, winning goodness, that graciousness of speech, that warmth which characterized his fellow apostle, Peter." On the contrary, he was hard and ascetic. He was also epileptic, and saw many...
Medicine Man. When Mr. May was an Illinois farm boy, his parents wanted him to be a preacher. He compromised by joining Evangelist Billy Sunday, and learned from him the technique of the freehanded overstatement. Later, May took a two-week course in "business engineering," and went to work as an efficiency expert. Soon he was a crack salesman of efficiency systems and able to set up for himself in Chicago in 1925. His sales clincher: "If you will let us put in a production-control system, about all you will have to do, Mr. President, is come down...
...Illusions, Some Signs. Branch Rickey looks like Lionel Barrymore playing Thaddeus Stevens, talks like an evangelist in a voice that exploits the whisper as aptly as the roar. When he left his world-champion St. Louis Cardinals to take the Brooklyn job, he was in his right mind. One of baseball's most successful businessmen, he had no illusions. Not long before he signed to boss the Dodgers he had said: "Whoever takes over the Brooklyn management will find himself in a burial ground...
...Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...
Other Churchmen warned of the "moral risk," spoke of the "sense of surprise and regret." The Evangelist, Albany's diocesan weekly, said: "The bombing . . . smells to heaven as an act of vandalism...