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...Robert Herbert Mize Jr. is an Episcopal minister who is conducting an experiment. That experiment has sometimes roused the good citizens of Ellsworth, Kans. to unholy wrath. But this week Kansans were digging down as usual to give Mize the money he needs for his St. Francis Boys' Home. Said one bank vice president wonderingly: "This man is Christlike, all right, but he's a genius at raising money...
...Mize, 40, took his B.A. in journalism at the University of Kansas and went to work for the United Press. He was a good newspaperman; one night he made up his mind that he would be a better minister...
After his ordination in 1932 he was assigned to a mission in western Kansas. As an unmarried vicar he was often asked to board paroled reform-school boys. The boys' response to his decent treatment kept Minister Mize pondering the problems of "exceptional children," as he likes to call delinquents. In 1945, when he learned that the vacant Poor People's Home at Ellsworth could be rented cheaply, "Father Bob" seized the opportunity to put some pet theories into practice...
...Mize's bishop gave his blessing, but no salary; the county commissioners gave him a three-year lease on the poorhouse at $25 a month; the Kansas businessmen he buttonholed came across with $25,000. In September 1945, he opened St. Francis Home and brought in 22 tough kids, more than 75% of them with jail records...
...week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...