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Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen shot the works. Starting with his ace lefthander, Preacher Roe, he used up a total of seven pitchers trying to cut the Phillies down. In the eighth the Dodgers scored three runs, tied up the game. Going into the last of the twelfth the Phillies threatened again, loading the bases with one out. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe zipped a third strike past Outfielder Del Ennis. But then Philly First Baseman Eddie Waitkus lashed a liner toward Second Baseman Jackie Robinson, who had missed a grounder in the second inning that let in two Philadelphia runs...
...guest preacher at Oklahoma City's St. Luke's Methodist Church last spring, Peters offered a plan of his own. Over & above U.S. Government aid to underdeveloped countries, he said, there ought to be a voluntary, Christian Point Four program. It would express the charitable love of Christians as no government program ever could. Said Peters: "The only way to defeat Communism is to outlive, out-love, out-serve and out-die it . . . This is the hour when we need to rise and show what...
...such passages Author-Mumford reveals himself as a familiar type of preacher. The difference between Preacher Mumford and others is the passionate effort he makes to translate a host of old truths into a single new creed...
...mission, but the spry, bearded old pastor had never let custom stand in his way. For nine years, from 1928 to 1937, he had preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each caller heard a plainspoken talk on Christian verities...
Topped. In Toronto, on the same Sunday the United Church offered a sermon entitled "Rainbow," the Baptist preacher two blocks away chose the topic: "The Double Rainbow...