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...fortunate as Barbara Jane Mackle. On Christmas Eve, Pamela, 10, went to the Des Moines Y.M.C.A. with her father to watch her brother in a wrestling match. She walked out to the lobby for a candy bar, and disappeared. Two days later, Anthony E. Williams, a self-styled preacher and accused rapist, calmly led police to a roadside ditch eight miles from Des Moines where her frozen body...
...Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...
...believe in Christ has always been, as Kierkegaard put it, an inexplicable leap of faith. The most profound preacher of that mystery in the 20th century was Karl Barth, who died last week at the age of 82. Eulogized as the century's most significant religious thinker, Barth changed the course of Protestant theology in his lifetime almost singlehandedly. Though he abhorred theological systems, he produced, in his 14-volume Church Dogmatics, the most powerful exposition of Protestant thought since Calvin's Institutes...
...Atlanta, a preacher who had al ready looted a sackful of Bibles was trailed to a grocery, where he tried to make off with a dozen steaks. In Hous ton, an irate father brought his two daughters back to a department store, to gether with the $460 worth of clothes they had shoplifted. In San Francisco, a family of 1 5 - including mother, broth ers, sisters and cousins - swept through a department store and collected hundreds of dollars worth of goods. Detectives who trailed them found that the father was waiting outside in the family car with the motor running...
...graduate of Baylor University, he happened to be preaching in a small Kentucky backwoods church one Sunday in 1934 when a prominent Baptist layman from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot the sermon. After the death in 1944 of First Baptist's best-known preacher, Dr. George W. Truett, the congregation consulted Hill about a successor. He wrote back: "W. A. Criswell is the only man in all the earth...