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...Luke's Church up from 30 to 1,000 members while cutting his golf handicap down to 8. His "Good Golfers' Dinners" are famed throughout the Northwest, feature screwball debates on such subjects as "RESOLVED, That all bad putting is due to a bad conscience." Now Pastor Tyner also preaches twice weekly in a sports column for the Minneapolis Star-Journal...
...last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...American male, keeps his religion in his womenfolks' name. His wife, daughter and sister are members of First Church; he is not. When he learned last spring that the church emblem had the place of honor, he swung into action and insisted that the two flags be reversed. Pastor Lewis Gaston Leary refused to make the change. So Chief Stites made it himself. Dr. Leary changed the flags right back. Last week the governing body of his congregation backed his stand that the "most sacred symbol of our religion should be second to nothing." Said Dr. Leary, whose...
...Speechifying mightily against O'Daniel is flamboyant, influential Rev. J. Frank ("Two-Gun")- Norris, pastor of Fort Worth's mammoth First Baptist Church. Pastor Norris, a skilled practitioner of two-gun oratory, has staged rallies in Fort Worth and Houston, letting go against Pappy with both guns...
...rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal...