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...been homesick for a pulpit," says Bishop Gerald Kennedy, 61, who presides over his church's 262,000-member Southern California-Arizona conference. Kennedy will now have his own flock to tend in addition to his administrative duties. He is taking over the 2,900-member First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, marking the first time an active bishop of the Methodist Church has also led a local congregation. "The local church is the front line, and a bishop needs to be where the action is," says he. There will be hazards, though. "I've been telling...
...every available scrap of information about Crane and his writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably is the most exhaustive biography ever written about Crane-or likely to be written. Nothing is ignored: the details of his birth in 1871, the 14th child of a gentle Methodist minister in Newark, the fairly typical boyhood years in Port Jervis, N.Y., the erratic career as a reporter for New York City papers, and finally, his years as a correspondent covering the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American wars...
...daughter of a chemist and granddaughter of a Methodist minister, Judy was working as a 19-year-old file clerk for the Maryland Casualty Co. in Baltimore (which, as a native, she pronounces "Ballimer") when she met young Spiro Agnew, then a night student at the University of Baltimore Law School. She recalls their first date, when they went to the movies and later drank chocolate milkshakes at an A & W rootbeer stand. They were married 18 months later, in 1942, two days after he had graduated from Army Officers Candidate School as a second lieutenant...
Furious Bursts. Ojukwu's antagonist is a dapper, 33-year-old son of a Methodist missionary. Yakubu Gowon, the commander of the federal forces, had no ambitions beyond serving as a competent staff officer of the Nigerian army until two years ago, when leaders of the Northern countercoup settled on him as head of state. Gowon was, at that point, the North's way of appeasing the South: besides practicing Christianity, he belonged to one of the smallest Northern tribes. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst military school, Gowon once shared barrack quarters with Ojukwu, but has neither his intellect...
...line show is one of the most discredited forms of radio programming. What could be more unedifying than know-nothing listeners phoning in their philosophies to know-it-all ex-disk jockeys? But this summer the United Methodist Church is making judicious use of the format. It is sponsoring a radio dialogue between the races that is more compelling than any heard on the sudden multitude of such talk shows, including those produced...