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...Average membership of all Methodist churches is 185, with 73% located in small towns or rural areas. Average Methodist minister's salary is $1,496 ($28.77 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists on the Move | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Only one Methodist minister in 50 has stayed at any one church more than five years in the two decades since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists on the Move | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...would be more attractive than CRIMSON reporters, she admitted slyly, "Could be. Although I've known several Harvard men," she continued, "I've never had a date with one. You see, I was born in Texas, so went out with boys from Texas A. and M. and Southern Methodist. John Green, the conductor of the orchestra for the show, and the doctor I went to see last week were both Harvard men, though, and both are very attractive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE OF HUMOR IS CRITERION OF MALE BEAUTY SAYS CONSTANCE MOORE | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...seen a Sunday game. Born in Stockdale, Ohio, he taught country school and then, with $68 saved from his $35-a-month salary, he went to Ohio Wesleyan, where he was a star ballplayer, graduated in 1906, still serves on its board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles of the 500-odd ballplayers he controls, but he keeps an extensive tab on their private morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Brain | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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