Word: groceryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
...What Groceryman Butt means when he calls himself a Gospel-bootlegger is simply that he is not a minister and has no formal license to preach. Moreover, his regular job in the world is responsible and demanding; he is vice president of the HEB grocery chain, one of the most successful in Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly...
...Howard Butt spends from six to eight weeks a year conducting revivals, filling in for ministers and addressing church groups throughout the country. Riding the airlines from engagement to engagement with a bagful of books, he tries to find time to read. On such Christian junketings, "God's Groceryman," as some of his admirers call him, does not skimp his business duties; he keeps a sharp eye peeled for new merchandising ideas and wastes no time in putting them into practice. "I have to go home and sell a bean once in a while," he says...
...What Made Him Do It?" Outside, a siren wailed and faded. Two cops brought in a 15-year-old Negro on a stretcher. "A kid with the big ideas shot out of him," volunteered one of the cops. "Tried to hold up a grocery, so the groceryman goes for his .38 and lets the kid have it." Almost as an afterthought he added, "The gun the kid had was empty to begin with...
...Gamble. Tireless Tommy Lipton reversed an old igth Century success pattern. The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S. Instead of finding his fortune he drifted from job to job-a worker in the rice fields of South Carolina, a plantation bookkeeper, a clerk in New York. But Tommy Lipton never forgot some of the things he learned in P. T. Barnum's U.S. In 1869, with savings of $500, he went back to Glasgow and two years later opened...