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...appropriate to read the newspaper on the Sabbath. Ford's upbringing was more relaxed. Some Sunday afternoons, he recalled, "I'd just go out and play baseball. Of course, some of my Dutch friends weren't allowed to do that." As a young Michigan Congressman, he met a gospel-film executive named Billy Zeoli, who stopped by Ford's office and gave him a Bible. Over the next few years the two men became close--so close that Ford came to call Zeoli "an alter ego, a second self...
...appropriate to read the newspaper on the Sabbath. Ford's upbringing was more relaxed. Some Sunday afternoons, he recalled, "I'd just go out and play baseball. Of course, some of my Dutch friends weren't allowed to do that." As a young Michigan Congressman, he met a gospel-film executive named Billy Zeoli who came by Ford's office and gave him a Bible. Over the next few years the two men became close - so close that Ford came to call Zeoli "an alter ego, a second self...
DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Mo. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin--later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)--also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess...
...DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Missouri. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin-later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)-also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. Numbers 1 in 5 Number of British adults who regularly throw coins into wishing wells and fountains $5.9 million Amount they throw into wells every year...
...year history, the church has never endorsed a presidential candidate and that much of the folklore surrounding its beliefs just isn't true. "The message in a nutshell is, Remember that we're politically neutral as an institution," he says. "The church is about preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Anything else is a distraction." Otterson says he has a "no dumb questions" policy and urges journalists to call his cell phone, day or night...