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Collins enlisted Baptist Minister Hoyt Farr and Methodist Minister Roland Walker as witnesses, set forth one night for the Hunt and Lido Clubs, in dry Clayton County. Collins talked his way past burly bouncers and a front door with iron bars, got a minister ("my buddy") into each club with him. In his column, he reported what they had seen: "The Hunt Club [has] a well-stocked bar ... big stacks of gambling chips and the biggest crap or gaming table you are likely to see in these parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with...
Reynolds took the first step in 1949, and it was a bold one: engaging the Rev. Clifford H. Peace, a 40-year-old Methodist minister, as "pastor-counselor" of the company, Reynolds President John C. Whitaker posted the company's reasons on bulletin boards at the office building and at each of the company's eight factory buildings in Winston-Salem...
CHARLES E. NORTON '52, president of the Wesley Foundation (Methodist...
...even while he flicked his toes in the evening, Harold began to spend more & more of his daylight hours in the work of the Methodist Church. On Sundays he would attend six or seven church services or study groups, and in time he made up his mind to be a minister. During his undergraduate years at Indiana's Taylor University, he spoke more than 400 times at meetings and churches throughout the Middle West. From Taylor he went to Princeton Theological Seminary; when a right-wing group of the faculty broke away to form the fundamentalist-minded Westminster Theological...
Died. Olive Fremstad, eightyish, old-time Wagnerian soprano, one of the last of the hefty, histrionic divas of the Metropolitan Opera's early-century "Golden Age"; in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. In Minnesota, where her father emigrated from Norway and set up as a Methodist lay preacher, she played the organ at his revival meetings, worked her way to Manhattan stardom, made a million, at her farewell appearance in 1914 (as Elsa in Lohengrin) took 40 curtain calls...