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Sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality, the march against Gwynn Oak was carefully planned. The demonstrators, most of them white, first gathered in Baltimore's Metropolitan Methodist Church, prayed and sang hymns until an appointed hour, then broke up into several groups and headed for the park...
...entered their names respectfully in ledgers as "Mr." or "Mrs.," extended them credit, and let them try on clothing before a sale. The Jews were rarely greeted with hostility. Bible Belt fundamentalists believed they were the living witnesses to the Old Testament. Often one was asked, "Are you a Methodist Jew or a Baptist...
Motive Within. She is an osteopath's daughter from Kirksville, Mo., who was raised in Chicago and did her first play with a Methodist church group. "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life," she decided, and enrolled at Chicago's Goodman Memorial Theater School of Drama. When she graduated, she formed a summer stock company, which she and several schoolmates kept running for a remarkable four years. She taught drama one year at De Paul University and worked with a rep group called the Valentine Traveling Players, building for herself a versatility...
...became president when his father died in 1926, four years later with his three brothers gave 10% of the company's common stock to its 300 employees as a Christmas gift, then resigned to spend he rest of his life and fortune on good works for the Methodist Church; after a long illness; in Westfield...
...mountain, relaxed in the white twelve-room hacienda. They were isolated from the rest of the world except for a single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially by clergymen. Declared Philadelphia's Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson: "It is an appalling shock to the moral sensibilities and sense of fair play of the rank and file of Americans." Stepping out of his field, he predicted that the marriage could cost Rockefeller "three to five million votes" if he becomes the Republican nominee for President. Said Dr. Daniel...