Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the first to preach artillery's new possibilities was quiet, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Jesmond Dene Balmer, now Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what time fire could do, Jess Balmer was calling for its use on a huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard...
...more than 200 films. He performed his first movie wedding ceremony in Making the Grade. His last movie wedding was a year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word. In the film Claudette Colbert bolted a big lawn wedding just as Actor Dodd was about to start reading the service...
Life With Father. In Oakland, Calif., the Rev. Dr. Cecil Johnson announced that as a Father's Day special, he would preach on "Ten Virgins in a Crisis" and "I Am The Only Man- So What...
First week of school is "setting the sights." Men who were bigshots in the Church have to learn that in the Navy they may be very smallshots. Typical remark by an instructor: "The last Sunday you preached from your pulpit some nice old lady came up and said, 'That was a wonderful message, Doctor.' The first Sunday you preach after you finish this school, some bluejacket may come up and say, 'Damn good sermon, padre.' You must realize that there is as much sincerity in one as in the other...
...Reformed Church's General Synod, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., told the State Department that "the duty has been laid upon us by Christ to preach the Gospel to all nations. . . . [To] restrain all but one faith from doing what under conscience is the duty of all faiths is a violation of religious liberty...