Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soong now holds China's No. 2 post. All Asia knows him as "T.V." -the initials that stand for Tse-Veng (Scholarly Son), the name given him by his stern Methodist father. All Asia knows him, too, as one of the Far East's big, progressive-minded, dynamic statesmen...
...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...sharpest rise in attendance (60.2% over last year) has been in the southwest. There a riotous Randolph Field service team led by an ex-All America from Virginia, Lieut. Bill Dudley, has hammered Rice 59-to-0, Texas 42-to-6, Southern Methodist 41-to-0 and two service teams for an average of 45.6 points per game against 1.2 for the opposition. Last week Dudley & Co., with ex-high-school coach Lieut. Frank Tritico directing, swamped the North Texas Aggies...
Died. Richard Bennett, 71, famed actor, father of Barbara, Constance and Joan; after long illness; in Los Angeles. Indiana-born descendant of a line of Methodist preachers, he was brilliant in many hits (Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...
...concern for Negroes, Editor Bucke will add an equal concern for Jews. As a pastor of Hyde Park, Mass.'s Methodist Church (Hyde Park, nearby Dorchester and Mattapan have 60,000 Jews), he has worked hard in their Good Neighbor Association to promote racial and religious goodwill. His theory: "John Smith must meet Jacob Epstein and get to know him as a human being." He put his theory into practice by taking Protestant young people to a synagogue service. On his first day at the Herald, Editor Bucke had on his desk a huge bouquet from Mattapan...