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Homemade Gingerbread. What Candidate McGonigle lacks in political experience he makes up in genial man-to-man manner. Born of Scotch-Irish Methodist parents in Kane, Pa., McGonigle worked his way through Kane High and Temple University, was a General Foods driver-salesman until he took charge at $30 a week of the shaky Bachman Pretzel Bakery in Reading, and began rocketing its output with automatic pretzel benders and cellophane packages. Last year G.O.P. State Chairman George Bloom, trying to salvage something of the G.O.P. wreckage left by the Grundy and Fine machines, persuaded Pretzel King McGonigle to become...
With John V. Farwell and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody in charge, the Y. barged into the Civil War with a vengeance, charged into Army camps, held as many as ten prayer meetings a night. In his spare time, silver-tongued Methodist Moody went on the prowl for gamblers, exhorted them to trade in their playing cards for hymnals (legend has it the Y. was soon stuck with a storeroomful of decks...
...decide whether your Feb. 17 item was supposed to be facetious or not: artificial insemination for spinsters! Aside from the fact that the very idea destroys the meaning of the word "family," can it be possible that Methodist Leader Donald Soper could possibly not know that a woman is called to two types of motherhood-spiritual as well as physical. I'm glad I'm not one of the sheep in this shepherd's fold; I would find frustration in his guidance...
...figure out how to use the plants they have. Sunday after Sunday, in thousands of soot-stained city churches, preachers look down on a mere scattering of worshipers: some big-city churches in the East report losing as many as 1,000 members a year. Last week 1,153 Methodist ministers and laymen gathered in Washington for a conference on the problem under the title, "Winning the Changing City for the Changeless Christ...
Some of the Methodist leaders wandered from the subject to such topics as segregation, anticlericalism and the growing religiosity of politicians. As usual, no one spoke more pungently than Methodism's old reliable baiter of capitalists. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington. He is no more afraid of "creeping socialism." said Oxnam, than of "stumbling capitalism." Though Oxnam said he holds no brief for collective ownership, "I must face the fact that there is something radically wrong with so-called 'free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively...