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Looking back on his own pre-prison life not so much in anger as in new-found wisdom, Crump tells the story of Guy Morgan. Like Crump, Morgan hates his father, a hellfire-and-brimstone revival preacher with a weakness for girls, who finally abandons the family for the favors of a particular girl named Zola. Morgan, like Crump, is brutally and unjustifiably beaten by a Negro-hating Chicago cop. But with plenty of precedent and plenty of excuse for blaming all Morgan's troubles on society, Crump instead makes his story illustrate a more mature individual judgment...
Headquartered in Waco, McCracken's company is housed in a modern, $150,000 building, has an electronic computer for subscription lists; he owns a Beechcraft Bonanza, which he pilots himself to sales meetings. Son of a Baptist preacher, McCracken still finds time to do some lay preaching. "There is more than just a commercial reason for being in any business," he says. "I'm just lucky that I'm able to accomplish so much good in mine...
...believe that the original version of that poem, in the Religion article "What to Call the Preacher?" [Nov. 30], is from a novel about an Episcopal clergyman entitled The Chain. I recall its verses as follows...
...account, Aluminum Pioneer Davis was the fifth richest man in the U.S. A penniless New England preacher's son, he spent 60 years building the Aluminum Co. of America into one of the world's industrial giants. At 80, he retired to Florida, seemingly ripe for a pipe, cabana and canasta. Instead, he began a second career of buying Florida real estate. Soon he owned an airline, a shipping company, an ice cream plant, one-eighth of Dade County (Miami), 20,000 acres in the Bahamas, 200,000 acres on Cuba's Isle of Pines...
Says Baptist Minister Curtis R. Nims of San Francisco's First Baptist Church: "My suggestion to our congregation if they wish to be formal is to call me 'Mister Nims' or, if they prefer, since many are from the South, 'Preacher Nims' or 'Brother Nims.' " Lutheran ministers are properly called "pastor" and, although some high-church Episcopalians prefer to be called "father," most agree with the verse written by Episcopalian Henry Lewis, chaplain at the University of Michigan's Medical Center...