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...town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators of Rummels' appliance store on Main Street. At mid-morning the ladies began carrying the food to a special luncheon tent, along with 60 fried chickens, cords of fresh sweet corn...
...district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners to his bier. His funeral was conducted by a Methodist minister, because the Roman Catholic Church refused him burial on the ground that he had not practiced his religion for many years...
Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church...
...board of trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, voted in May to reprimand an S.M.U. English professor who has been waging a one-man public campaign of anti-Semitism for the past several years...
...facts "do not bear out the allegations made by Dr. Beaty," said the trustees' statement, which followed a near-unanimous vote of condemnation by the S.M.U. faculty. The President of the University, Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist minister, had also denounced Beaty's charges...