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Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in Georgia. Dr. Newton, a onetime reporter who never studied for the ministry, preaches in a journalistic style, with emphasis on current events. (Last fortnight he sailed into the resurgent Klan as it staged a tumultuous cross-burning near Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Century of Secession | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Propulsion. In Los Angeles, suicide-bent Ronald Neff turned on the gas, forgot to douse the water-heater pilot, blasted himself safely out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Family Life. In Charleston, W.Va., a woman who complained in court that her husband had kicked her, lost her case when Judge Harold Neff noted that the man had only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...Prof. Neff--Be practical and follow the colored chalk diagrams carefully...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

Score--Tufts 23, Harvard 33. Winner--Blanchard (T); Tuttle (H); Atwell (H); Martin (T); Kennedy (T); Foster (T); Moores (T); Rochelle (H); Noble (H); Neff (T); Dick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS LOSE RACE TO JUMBOS BY 23-33 | 10/3/1944 | See Source »

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