Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRANK A. KOSTYU Pastor...
...when NSSFNS (pronounced "./Ves-jfeness") began ferreting out hidden talents such as LaMar's, Negroes accounted for only one-tenth of 1% of the students in interracial colleges. To three prominent New Yorkers-Dean Harry Carman of Columbia College, Mrs. Felice Schwartz, and Pastor James H. Robinson of the Church of the Master-this seemed not only an injustice but a waste of brainpower. Though too many boys and girls of all races were missing their chance for a full education because of poverty or bad training, the largest group affected was the Negroes. Deciding to go to the rescue...
...Charlie Shedd, now pastor of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church of Houston, lost 100 Ibs. (from around 300 to 195) over a three-year period of prayer and medically supervised fasting, which he describes in a new book, Pray Your Weight Away (Lippincott; $2.95). "The spiritual approach to reducing," writes Pastor Shedd, "is a sure road to healing your obesity, permanently." But certain preconditions are necessary...
...first, integrated buses on night runs were sporadically peppered with shotgun blasts. Then things seemed to quiet down. It was a false quiet. One night last month the stillness was shattered by a series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church...
...when she tours the Methodist Hospital to find out if anything is needed. She has visited medical centers all over the U.S. to see if her own hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone I know. Why, it's only been a short time ago that she stopped going down to the church and helping out at functions. She used to roll up her sleeves, cook, wash...