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...issue reporting churchmen "waking up to race" was stimulating. You will be interested to know that Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines of the Indiana area has sent letters to the 1,000 Methodist ministers and lay leaders in the state offering full support for implementation of the policy of open worship and open membership. During the next few months, 350,000 Methodists are being asked to act on these matters in their local congregations...
JOHN D. WOLF District Superintendent Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church South Bend...
...movie script? A sixth-grader's dream of glory? Not at all. Roger Thomas Staubach, 21, Naval Academy midshipman and college quarterback beyond compare, was playing football against Southern Methodist University in Dallas. And as 37,000 bedazzled fans in the Cotton Bowl screamed wildly-for him, against him, or just from the sheer excitement of it-Quarterback Staubach put on a show that even the most jaded pro-football fan would find breathtaking to behold...
...celebrated its 100th birthday as College of the Pacific, the oldest college in California was the model of a football foundry. For years, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had built teams that trounced the mighty universities of Chicago and California. By 1950, having climbed to tenth in the nation, Methodist-founded Pacific had progressed from stadiums seating 10,000 to 20,000 to 35,000-and into academic oblivion...
...brasses and the lasses may look the same, but in fact the Army is finding new ways to serve God by serving man. In many of its slum-area chapels, officers still sweeten their fundamental ist, Methodist-derived gospel preaching with soap and soup for half-listening human derelicts. But the Army is rapidly augmenting its brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even...