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Sound Effect. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Rev. Jackson Burns of St. Paul's Methodist Church, having tape-recorded one of his Sunday sermons, listened to the playback, fell asleep...
Protestant clergymen openly joined in the attack. New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, a leader of the nationwide Fundamentalist movement, denounced Smith as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress." Virginia's Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. thundered at Smith in sermons and pamphlets, organized a South-wide movement of drys dedicated to his defeat. Moderator Hugh K. Walker of the Presbyterian General Assembly called upon all Protestant churchmen to "fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith...
Mystery Man. Author of 13 books (God's Good News, The Christian and His America), Kennedy reviews four novels a month for the Methodist magazine, Together, confesses that mysteries are his favorite fare among the six books he reads a week. Ranging the world as energetically as he does his diocese, he has traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and last year led a delegation to Russia. On the subject of Communism he is about as tough as any U.S. churchman. "I don't like to talk about coexistence. I don't mean we have...
...martinis that he makes up for the week. He usually gets into bed about 9 to read or watch TV (particularly shows with tobacco sponsors) until lights out at 10:30. Gray has few cultural interests (his favorite relaxation: doing jigsaw puzzles), seldom attends church (he is a Methodist), sees perhaps one movie a year. His chief outside-work interest is the farm, where he likes to wander on weekends, carrying a notebook with the vital statistics of his 415 Guernseys and calling them by name?"Emma, Brenda, Belle, Charming." Gray is a millionaire; besides his $160,000 annual salary...
...loyal to the firm that they have kept Reynolds the only major nonunion firm in the industry, even though it pays no higher than other companies. Reynolds paternalistically rewards its employees with generous fringe benefits, including a pension plan, notably few firings, and the fulltime service of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Clifford Peace, who listens to their troubles on company time...