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...mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...Pastors in Politics. So far, there had been little talk of the candidates' religion, although much talk had been prophesied in view of the fact that West Virginia is 93% Protestant. The pastor of a United Brethren Church in Parkersburg told his flock that if Kennedy wins, "the Pope will be running the country," and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, stopping off in Charleston, doubted that a Catholic could remain independent. That was all, so far. And everyone remembered that in darkest 1928, Al Smith won West Virginia's Democratic primary (81,739-75,976) against Missouri...
Hearing of the Douglas survey, some prominent MWs have given their own opinions. The wife of President Eisenhower's Presbyterian pastor, Mrs. Edward L. R. Elson, is impatient with any talk about the difficulties involved: "I think they're all dividends, myself." Mrs. John Wesley Lord, wife of the Resident Methodist Bishop in the Boston Area, agrees that "the satisfactions are unique and abundant. A minister's wife has a whole congregation to love and call hers. And she's also blessed with the services of the best doctors, dentists, and other professional...
...your thoughts with me or to listen to mine," his typical MW writes to her husband. "Often I am in need of someone to listen to my problems, to answer my spiritual questions, and to fill my emotional needs. To whom can I turn if you are not my pastor as well as my husband? I wonder sometimes if in the concentration on your professional duties, our own religious life is not in danger of becoming superficial and mechanical...
Died. The Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, 45, strapping, red-haired pastor of Oklahoma City's egg-shaped First Christian Church, onetime chaplain of the Republican National Committee, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 and lost to Democrat Mike Monroney; when his twin-engined plane crashed into a milk truck at Camp Hill, Pa., also killing his wife Marylouise, 36, and their pilot...