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With his high dome, big nose and white hair, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 88, looks something like a latter-day George Washington. But his thoughts go the other way. For 32 years, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury has nursed a passion for Communism. He pleaded for the U.S. to give Russia the atomic bomb, accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea. "Communism," he preached, "is doing something. It is following Christ's standards." He even attributes his vigorous health to the Reds; he and his wife inject themselves with a mysterious, Rumanian-developed novocain serum called...
...dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints has ever seen...
Nearly one-third of the world's 1,800,000 Latter-Day Saints have been baptized since McKay became president in 1951. Much of the growth stems directly from policy decisions he made shortly after taking office. He abandoned the church tradition of urging converts to settle in Utah (We were robbing ourselves of local leadership in the missions") and he authorized the construction abroad of new temples-previously limited to the U.S. and Canada-when membership growth warranted. He made the Mormons' aggressive missionary work more effective by suggesting that convert-makers ask for appointments instead...
...Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of the local vegetable man-delights him, and he passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt in the ringing of a dark-silver gong, I felt the winds of legend sweep between my ribs, and the fires of yearning...
...interest in Mormonism when he notices the fine pair of boots a bishop is wearing. Neatly mixing materialism with religion, the bishop makes his convert: "No Lutheran could obtain a pair of boots like these, my lad." he says. "These shoes are a proof that the Church of the Latter-day Saints is founded on the All-Wisdom. These shoes have been a much stronger argument for me in arguments with Lutherans than any quotations from the Prophets...