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Steel Ahead. It was evident last week that Harold Wilson was certainly an odd sort of socialist, one able to beguile a French autocrat, a German burgher and a millionaire Texan. Actually Wilson is more Methodist than Marxist, and even if he wanted to nationalize everything in sight, he would be hard put to find many sizable industries that the British government does not already have a hand in. It is a fact of British life that after 13 years of Conservative rule, one of every four houses in the country is owned by public authorities, 90% of British students...
Cure by Prayer. Texas-born Mary Happer, sister-in-law of General Maxwell D. Taylor, was the sprightly, popular treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further...
...role of bishops must be preserved in the merger as a "symbol and agent of the continuity of the church." Without a dissenting vote, the consultation authorized six clerics to prepare an "outline of a possible plan of union" for next year's meeting in Dallas. Three Negro Methodist churches expressed interest in becoming full-time partners...
...everybody can be as cosmically insensitive as that, particularly when, as it sometimes appears, there is so much manure and so little grass. Actually, there is relatively less indignation from the pulpits of any denomination than one might expect. Says Harold Bosley, pastor of Manhattan's Christ Church Methodist: "The new license in the arts is one of the major problems in the church today. But none of us are interested in rigorous public censorship. We must help create an attitude of self-censorship and responsibility, otherwise we're dead ducks." And Baptist Minister Howard Moody...
...Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program, and in the South especially, Methodist and Baptist clergymen lent the K.K.K. massive support. It was not long before it blossomed into a mighty nationwide organization that claimed to number in its hooded ranks about 4,000,000 members...