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Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...
Early Life & Education: Born June 2, 1920, Dickson, Tenn., son of a druggist-turned-lawyer. Voluntarily tromped off at the age of eight to join the Methodist Church, preached his first sermon at 15. Specially tutored in public speaking by his aunt, Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems, director of Shipp School of Expression. Married Lucille Christianson at 19, passed state bar examinations (with highest grade out of 276) a year before graduating from Vanderbilt University School...
...plenty. He was a longtime trustee of Columbia University and La fayette College, campaigned hard for the United Negro College Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, gave generously to religious groups. One 1955 gift: $1,000,000 to the Genesee (N.Y.) Conference of the Methodist Church...
...face became serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls, insurance-company presidents, Methodist bishops, Catholic monsignori, managing editors of newspapers, and other such swine drink during...
...yangban (noblemen) of Seoul, the whole fantastic scheme seemed as sinister a foreign plot as had ever been brought to Korea. Never before had the country had a school for women, and now an American Methodist Episcopal missionary named Mary Scranton was opening one with the obvious purpose of corrupting Korean womanhood. There were even rumors, back in 1886, that a girl who dared to go there might have her eyes cut out by the missionaries for medical research...