Word: marva
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...that some associates called him the black Pope. On a recent Sunday, Lyons forbade a TIME photographer to take a wide-angle shot of the congregation at worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when...
...board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside the organization as Gibson's ``special friend''; extra hotel rooms at N.A.A.C.P. conventions, at which Gibson had already been provided with free accommodations; and $126,000 for limousines. In addition to having his credit-card bills paid by the organization, Gibson received...