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Divorced. Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged "intolerable" cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world...
...enquire: how could you have been so careless as .to have classified as Miscellaneous, in your June n edition, the feat of Milwaukee Evangelist Thomas who, by preaching on death from a coffin, so suggestively illustrated his sermon...
...Evangelist H. W. Thomas lay in a coffin one evening last week. Peering over the edge he harangued Milwaukeeans with ghoulish realism on the subject, "The Journey We All Must Take...
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist McPherson for $1,000,000. Last week, Mrs. Kimball's lawyer announced that the suit had been settled out of court. What the terms of settlement might have been, he refused to say; his client, however, was "perfectly satisfied...
More tidings arrived in Rome from Scranton, Pa., to inform His Holiness that the Right Rev. Thomas C. O'Reilly, former pastor of the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Cleveland, Ohio, had been enthroned as Bishop of the Scranton Diocese. Perusing these, the Pope was able to imagine the city-wide scenes of jubilation which had marked the splendid event. He perhaps pictured to himself the flag-filled town, the excited citizens, the procession of 400 clergymen, the important witnesses, the strange and architecturally miscellaneous cathedral to which humble U. S. worshippers came, and at which...