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Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...mean big-city sister had placed her when she was entirely sane. Latha does not lack for more manageable suitors-the town drunk, an amorous farmer, the enraptured child. But she waits, more or less chastely, for Every to return. Eventually he does so, a reformed man turned revival preacher...
...three opponents, two are over 60 and one is black. The former-a Baptist radio preacher known as "Uncle Mac" and a perennial candidate distinguished by the fact that he is on Social Security-are both former Democrats, believed hy many to have been planted by Democrats...
...tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...
...what little it's worth, a black cat of a preacher (Calvin Lockhart) collects $87,000 from Harlem residents for a back-to-Africa movement, then gets involved in a blood-spattered holdup while making off with the loot. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques are the soul detectives that set about tracking him. It is at best a rickety track. Cambridge is a terribly funny comedian and a terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very...