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...year of college to go, but the scouts consider him the best running back in the country: "No senior can run as well." U.C.L.A.'s Kermit Alexander, 21 (5 ft. n in., 187 lbs.), is a top-rated defensive halfback, and New Mexico State's James ("Preacher") Pilot, 21 (5 ft. 10 in., 200 lbs.), is highly touted as a bruising broken-field runner-"a big Buddy Young who can really...
Equally impressed was Samuel's Uncle John Phillips, a sometime preacher turned moneylender (at 15%), who founded the second Phillips in his own town of Exeter, N.H. Andover was soon awash with Lees of Virginia, New England Quincys, Lowells, Longfellows. Samuel F. B. Morse arrived at eight and ran away. Many a poor farm boy walked 50 miles carrying his suitcase and a headful of Greek grammar to enter the best school around...
...print. BRIDE OF THREE WEEK'S BEATS ASS OFF HUSBAND went one typical Independent headline above a story telling how a young farm wife in neighboring Camden County had bravely rescued her husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...
...Somewhere in every man there is the capacity for worship and prayer, for the apprehension of God and the love of him," wrote Manhattan's famed Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Praying is a practice like breathing or eating." From Pentecostal ministers roaring hallelujahs to Greek Orthodox choirs chanting the Divine Liturgy in four-part harmony, from a widow silently mourning her dead husband to a child asking for a wanted toy, the nation last week was praying...
...Francisco, after St. Mary's Cathedral had been destroyed by fire. Archbishop Joseph McGucken asked the 750,000 Roman Catholics in his diocese "for prayers of thanksgiving that no lives were taken, and prayers of guidance for the future." Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Cox, a guest preacher in the Disciples of Christ, reminded a G.O.P. rally in Richardson, Texas: "Most of us are prone to forget to whom we owe thanks for what we have, for what we are, and for what we hope to be. For these things we owe thanks to God and not to the state...