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...THEODORE FLOYD ADAMS, 62, president of the Baptist World Alliance (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1955), has been pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church since 1936 and has seen his congregation rise from 1,600 members to 4,100. Regarded as perhaps the Baptists' most distinguished preacher, Adams is firmly on record as opposed to segregation...
...when, as he later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher for the fundamentalist Church of the Nazarene. In California he met and married a Hollywood starlet named Constance Orozco...
...Every meeting of preachers brings word of another minister's wife who is on the brink of a mental and emotional collapse," reports an article in the Texas religious weekly, The Baptist Standard. Among the reasons: "The stresses and strains are enough to stagger an Amazon . . . Most ministers' wives have never heard a divine call, they have simply married men who have." They lead an "inexorable fishbowl existence," in which they are expected to be leaders and models in all fields. "Summarily stated, being a preacher's wife is the hardest of Kingdom positions...
Even before the Los Angeles roar acclaiming Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, the Houston Post got a hint of the kind of journalistic problem it might have to face. Getting word that an itinerant preacher had hit town with a warning against electing a Catholic to anything from President on down to dogcatcher, the Post reported one of his meetings. Recalls Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr.: "We soon got all sorts of hell from ministers of his denomination." A delegation of Church of Christ preachers, complaining of the deprecatory tone of the Post's story, demanded...
...Nabrit has only himself to credit. One of seven children of an Atlanta preacher, he earned his law degree at Northwestern, then joined the Howard law faculty as a fledgling constitutional lawyer in 1936 and jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard...