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...this question -particularly whenever a prominent U.S. citizen announces his conversion to the Catholic faith. Last week Dr. Poling, editor of the interdenominational Christian Herald (circ. 376,783), gave his readers the answer: a resounding yes. The Herald's estimates, summarized in a report by Author Will Oursler: as against 1,071,897 people converted to Catholicism during the last ten years (most of them presumably ex-Protestants), some 4,000,000 Roman Catholics have become Protestants...
Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight...
...Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Book Ever Written is a popularization...
...Florance, who had edited both, came over; as senior editor, he now runs the "planting" of Digest-originated articles in other magazines. Other ex-editors who joined Wallace: Business Week's Marc Rose, American Mercury's Paul Palmer, American's Merle Crowell, Liberty's Fulton Oursler...
...turning his attention to the Old Testament, say his publishers, Oursler "attempts no rationalization or modernization of the original text . . . nor does he supplement the narrative with his own explanations or interpretations." But the technicolor in which his prophets, priests and kings appear is a bit of an interpretation in itself. Excerpts...