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When Lloyd Douglas (Magnificent Obsession, Disputed Passage) was a little boy, his parson father used to tell him Bible stories. Says Author Douglas: "If he needed to throw in a little drama to make the story even more interesting, why he threw...
...Parson Tyner knows his sports, brings them easily and accurately into his discussions. His column, What's YOUR Score? usually has some sports newspeg, followed up by comment and anecdote, slyly works in religion on the side. Mr. Tyner keeps his pieces lively and under 200 words. Typical column...
Some 2,000 church members crowded into the church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...
...legacies. There is a story that at a meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce two members were standing in front of a hotel when they saw a panhandler approaching from one direction, Dr. Fifield from the other. They pointed out Dr. Fifield to the panhandler, saying that the parson had plenty of money. The panhandler closed with the parson. When the panhandler left, Dr. Fifield revealed to the startled pair that he had half the panhandler's take...
...know: Basic English . . . I can't write about polities. I don't know anything about politics. What's been happening lately? Singapore just fell? O.K. Give me a typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea for an ed on the town-grown relationship . . . Hey, Charlie! How about chewing gum? . . . Let's defend the pipe . . . It's Lincoln's birthday tomorrow; we might run condolences for all his friends and relatives . . . 125,000 Babies...