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Dinners & Bazaars. The Rev. E. W. Albrecht, pastor of the South Miami Lutheran Church, scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
Many died for their religious beliefs. Paul Schneider, a Rhineland Protestant pastor who was several times imprisoned for ridiculing the Nazis and collecting money for the Jews, was finally tortured to death in a cell from which he was made to watch the execution of prisoners outside. Each time a man was shot, Schneider's voice thundered over the parade ground: "I have seen this! And I will accuse you of murder before God's judgment seat...
...white house with a fence around it and a big collie dog. She wanted a nice nine-to-five man. A John Citizen." Nevertheless, on Nov. 17, 1934, barely two months after they met, Lady Bird and Lyndon were married in San Antonio by a pastor they had never before met, with a hurriedly purchased $2.50 wedding band from Sears, Roebuck. Next morning Lady Bird stunned Eugenia Lassater with an exuberant phone call: "Lyndon and I committed matrimony last night...
...votes for Goldwater.' " In Washington, IBM Salesman Jack Quinn explained: "The demonstrations started out to prove a point, and they've gone beyond that point. They've gone into areas they shouldn't be in." In St. Louis, Father James Marshall, a young white assistant pastor of St. Bridget's Catholic Church, wrote in a straightforward letter to the Globe-Democrat: "The hatred gushing forth on our city streets is not happening by mere chance. We are now paying the big price for years of planned segregation...
Where, for example, were Harlem's leaders last week? Its hero, its Congressman, and pastor of its huge, 10,000-member Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell, was in Switzerland and Washington, but not Harlem. "There's one good thing about Adam Clayton Powell," says one Negro. "He seems to make the Caucasians very angry." Harlem's only city councilman, J. Raymond Jones, was fresh back from his Virgin Islands retreat, but he saw no reason to comment on the situation...