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...could be blamed for doubting. He had not been seen in public since 1958, and the most recent photo dates from 1952. Dr. Jack Titus, the chief pathologist at Methodist Hospital, performed the autopsy. He found Hughes to be a skeleton of a man, weighing only 90-odd lbs., with wispy gray hair down to his shoulders and a sparse beard...
...when it comes to making your own life better, there's no place like the Church of Scientology." Charles Nichols, a North Carolina insurance agent, says he was inspired by former Pro Quarterback John Brodie's testimonial that Scientology healed his throwing arm. Nichols, an active Methodist, thinks that Scientology has enhanced his selfesteem: "It's easier to communicate, to know what...
First Southern Methodist Church...
...jobs or further study of religion; now less than half do. A surprising number simply drop out of organized religion-a defection that may reflect loss of faith and the shrinkage of the job market as the liberal Protestant churches continue their decline in membership. (Since 1966 the United Methodist, United Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches and the United Church of Christ have lost a total of 2.4 million members.) Meanwhile, the more conservative independent Evangelical schools and church-run seminaries are growing in size and prestige, though the report finds that the latter too are absorbing the "religious studies" approach...
...ultimately tragic singer, actor and civil rights leader who won a world fame known to few blacks of his generation and spent his last years sick, half-forgotten and, in Coretta Scott King's words, "buried alive"; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. Robeson was the son of a Methodist minister who had been a runaway slave, and a nearly blind mother who died in a fire when he was six. After excelling at his local New Jersey high school, young Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was valedictorian...