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...Jewish and the Roosevelt Administration." Relations grew strained with friends and even his in-laws, who favored intervention. His hero's luster dulled. Novelist J.P. Marquand, a friend, explained indulgently, "You've got to remember that all heroes are horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve, and after Pearl Harbor, F.D.R. refused to take him back. Instead, Lindbergh became a technical consultant for Ford and later for United Aircraft. By 1944, he finagled his way to the Pacific...
...maybe Puritan Frost was merely reverting to form. The only son of a church-mouse-poor Methodist minister, he was at 17 a spellbinding lay evangelist. He preached love and practiced thrift. He still does. Almost uniquely among showfolk, Frost seldom has been known to throw tantrums. He is almost as solicitous toward employees as he is toward celebrities, and treats autograph hunters as tenderly as his audiences or his relatives. He is indiscriminately ingratiating. Not since Ed Sullivan has anyone on television back-patted, hugged and smooched so rapturously. His wide-eyed, basset-unctuous, hand-kneading style...
...State on his first official visit to Moscow, Kremlin leaders fume as they hear yet another rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even...
With some of her new characters -like Sister Boogie Woman-the possession seems complete. Sister Boogie Woman is a Southern evangelist, and when she's got the boogie she shakes like a palm tree in a hurricane. What's boogie? Let her tell...
...band of pious students at Williams College got caught in a thundershower, huddled under a haystack to keep dry and held a prayer meeting. By the time the downpour ceased they had vowed to carry the Christian message overseas. One of them eventually became a pioneer evangelist to India while others helped create the U.S.'s first two foreign mission boards...