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...years as Harlem preacher and U.S. Congressman, Adam has consumed a good many apples. So after the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 57, told a group of friends that he'll be peeling off from his third wife, Yvette Diago Powell, 35, the newspapers were full of the gossip that the preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew...
...Harvard seniors will have their segregated service in Memorial Church, with President Pusey presiding and Charles P. Price '41, Preacher to the University, conducting the service...
...other actions, the delegates also: ¶Elected as their new moderator the Rev. Ganse Little, 62, of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, a dynamic Biblical preacher whose close relatives include five Presbyterian ministers. Little is a strong ecumenist who mixes his interest in theology with enthusiasm for pro football...
...human life human is part of salvation," says Methodist Minister Tex Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. "They've got the idea that salvation is a kind of good feeling between your liver and your gall bladder." Long Beach Pastor Paul Woudenberg hoots that the typical renewal preacher "heads into a social program as an excuse for not doing his real job, which is preaching and taking care of his congregation...
...myth, like Santa Claus. The God myth is dying, with our energetic help. The myth was born in the minds of ignorant, superstitious Stone-Age men and has been exploited by ancient and modern witch doctors to the immense profit of the priest clan. The modern preacher finds the glorification of his imaginary god less profitable than support of civil rights and social reforms; hence his slogan, "God is dead...