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Both foreign and home missions are enthusiastically financed by Southern Baptist churches and heavily tithing members. Typical example: the First Baptist Church in Decatur (Ga.), operating on a $407,114 yearly budget, spends $173,557 of it to support a Jordan hospital and other mission work, though its own building loan is not yet paid. In 1959 alone, gifts to the Southern Baptist Conference ran nearly $500 million...
...Kennedy-hating James Riddle Hoffa announced in Washington that he gave $1,000 to the opponent of one of his two most detested Congressmen: Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum, who, with Michigan's Republican Robert P. Griffin, authored last session's Teamster-haltering labor bill. In Lawrenceville, Ga., Landrum's primary opponent, F. Quill Sammon Jr., denied knowledge of Hoffa's grand offer. Wailed Sammon, trying to wipe off the kiss of death: "If Hoffa does want to help me, that's a heck of a way for him to do it, by saying...
Locomotive Chorus. When country singing came out of the hills, its highly developed morbid strain came too, and the form soon adapted itself to new material: guitarists began twanging out such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...
...Boulevardier's Eye. Born July 26, 1899 in Marietta, Ga., he came to have the look of midnight on Times Square: dapper, mustachioed, faintly weary, cheeks feverishly afire with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...
...paint sprayer, by night Imperial Wizard of the self-styled only "true" latter-day Ku Klux Klan, an Atlanta-based organization claiming membership in nine states and believed to be the biggest (an estimated 50,000 "knights") of several Klans still operating; of a heart attack; in College Park, Ga...