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...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), well-poised bishop on the rostrum rapped for order and the 700-odd members settled down. So this week, at the 100th annual Conference of the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, 71-year-old Bishop Alexander Preston Shaw became the first Negro to preside full-time over a conference of white Methodists...
...opponent, Representative Francis Case, Methodist minister's son and onetime country editor, left his duties in Washington, covered the state in a gas-station-and-drugstore campaign. Case was for economy first, last & always-including cuts in foreign aid and military preparedness. To Case's invitation to argue it out before the voters, Gurney coolly replied that he was busy...
Love Points the Way. Darryl Zanuck made his movie debut playing an Indian maiden on an early lot at $1 a day. That was just eleven years after his birth on Sept. 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Neb. (pop. 3,300). Worried about his health, his Methodist parents-Frank Zanuck, an Iowa-born hotel clerk of Swiss parentage and Louise Torpin Zanuck, a Nebraskan of English stock-moved to Los Angeles when Darryl was six. His mother cut his early movie career short as soon as she caught sight of him in Indian costume...
...years many a Protestant pastor has kept himself Emily-posted on such clerical fine points through the pages of the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon's Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette. This week Methodist Harmon brought out his book in a new, revised edition (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $2.50). Some highlights...
Morgan State's academic history goes back to 1867, when Methodist clergymen founded it as a school for Negroes. Its track history began when Coach Hurt was appointed athletic director in 1929. In those days Morgan had no track to run on, and Morgan's youngsters practiced on a gravel road that circled the campus. But as time passed, Morgan got itself a first-class, WPA-built running track, and Morgan athletes began to win their share of the meets with other Negro colleges in their own circuit...