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When the council's president, the Rev. W. W. Breckbill, pastor of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Altoona, Pa., asked for an appointment with the President, he was turned down. The White House reply: Truman has made up his mind on the Vatican issue, and the council had better go on over to Congress. Taking the cue, the pilgrims held a mass meeting in the lobby of the Washington Hotel and prayed for the success of their mission. Then, wearing large green lapel discs proclaiming "Keep church and state separate," they marched on Capitol Hill. Texas' Senator...
...eleven-member committee of presidents included the heads of institutions more noted for their athletic prowess than for perhaps anything else--colleges such as Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist--and this seems to bode well for a general awakening to the dangers of professionalism in college sports. The program the committee adopted was a generally good one. Some of the six points, such as abolition of out-of-season practice and limitation on the kind of financial aid that can be given to students who are also varsity athletes, may limit legitimate and desirable practices, but the principles...
...state churches expect no stampede to their ranks. "It will be a trickle, not a landslide," said Methodist Bishop Theodor Arvidson...
Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson, 42, Democratic National Committeewoman from Minnesota until Truman appointed her Ambassador to Denmark. The daughter of a Methodist preacher, Mrs. Anderson, is unassuming, friendly and frank, has charmed the Danes with her unaffected democracy and by learning their language. She is married to John Pierce Anderson, a retiring artist and photographer who is one of the heirs to the Puffed Wheat fortune. Energetic Mrs. Anderson was a leader in Americans for Democratic Action, helped carry Minnesota for Harry Truman in 1948. She won the Danes soon after her arrival when she invited all the plasterers, painters...
...bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...