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...speaks each year to more than 100 religious gatherings, for which he takes no fee, only expenses. He has appeared at Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, but his messages seem most at home in Baptist independents like the Kelview Heights Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, where he spoke last week...
...reading your account of the sources of several of the phrases in Candidate McGovern's acceptance speech, I was curious about the inspiration for the "Come home. America" theme. As a Methodist P.K. (preacher's kid) of McGovern's generation, I recall singing many times the gospel-hymn chorus that goes...
...wanted to come earlier, but Muskie had put him off: his daughter was cooking dinner for him and would be there until about 9. Muskie, wearing a turtleneck sweater and slacks, was listening to a recording of Bernstein's Mass. "It's O.K.," quipped Catholic Muskie to Methodist McGovern. "You don't have to genuflect." Muskie gave him a tour of the house, which McGovern had never seen before. Then they sat for two hours in Muskie's study, Ed behind the massive desk he had used as Governor of Maine. The two had never been...
While Edmund Muskie organized the courthouses, Stearns' volunteers concentrated on the precincts. In Kansas, Stearns recruited college students; in one district, they started working simply with lists of members of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Unitarian and Methodist Churches. They won 17 delegates. "No wonder the Democrats can't carry Kansas," says Stearns, a 27-year-old Rhodes scholar. "There's something wrong with a party organization if they can't prevent a delegate sweep by a bunch of college kids...
...machines and soft-drink machines in hallways, thus sparing the traveler the cost of room service. Today every Holiday Inn has a local doctor and dentist on call to treat guests at almost any hour. The chain even employs a full-time chaplain, the Rev. W.A. ("Dub") Nance, a Methodist. Among other things, he oversees a nationwide network of clergymen who volunteer spiritual counseling for guests at 820 inns; this group claims to have talked about 235 people out of committing suicide...