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Sunday church is an all-family affair. On one recent Sunday at Sullivan's Methodist Church, the ushers were Charlie, Sons Charles, John and Son-in-Law Roger Roney; Daughter-in-Law Mary played the organ. Until recently, Mabel was the church's membership secretary, and Daughter Janet often sings in the choir. Shuman teaches Sunday school after the service, as he has for 25 years...
George Reedy, 55, was cast as a big man around the White House when he was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, and last week he came back in just about the biggest casts anyone ever saw. Recovering after a successful operation at Rochester, Minn.'s Methodist Hospital to correct a painful condition called "hammertoes" (in which the toes curl under the foot), Reedy clomped over for a chat with the boss, said he would be back puttering at odd jobs in the White House this week, consulting the President on labor matters and appointments. Asked how he felt...
...history has the work of the churches and the Government coalesced on such a scale as now. The ecumenical movement, for one thing, has soothed old Protestant fears of a Roman Catholic-engineered, European-style church state. "When we Protestants talked of separation of church and state," admits Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, "we really meant that we were afraid of the Catholic Church." He attributes the relaxed attitude to "the two Johns"-Pope John XXIII, whose expressions of love for all men transcended the boundaries of doctrine, and John Kennedy, who convinced even the most wary fundamentalists...
...STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY by James Emmit McCauley. 76 pages. Southern Methodist University. $5. "I was borned on the 14th day of August 1873, in Anderson County, Lone Star State. My parents be poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what...
...Chorus. As with most Negro opera singers, Shirley's vocal talents were developed in the choir loft, initially in St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church in his native Indianapolis, and later in Detroit, where at 13 he sold papers to pay for his first private lessons. Son of an insurance agent, Shirley graduated from Wayne State University in 1955 with a degree in music education, taught at a Detroit high school for a year before being drafted into the Army. After singing with the Army chorus for three years, he moved to Manhattan, where his rise...