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...time loser on the lam from the law; she was 16, a revival preacher's daughter looking for kicks...
Waiter, peddler, porter, steward. Teacher, preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around...
...governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard, a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with a wing shaped like the body of a guitar. His last project was a design for an $11 million hospital that would fly on stilts over the lagoons of Venice...
Headed by contentious New Jersey Presbyterian Radio Preacher Carl McIntire, the L.C.C.C. is a vociferous amalgam of anti-ecumenical, anti-Catholic, anti-Communist fundamentalists who want all Protestants to "stand up and be counted"−counted out, that is, of the World Council. As proof of their devotion to that end, the 800 delegates issued a unanimous resolution: "Ecumenicity, as expressed in the World Council of Churches, represents a false concept of Christian unity and has no Biblical basis; its leadership includes men who have apostatized from the faith, it betrays the glorious heritage of the 16th century Reformation...
Bruce Kornbluth's Sergeant Kite is a masterpiece of Villainy; his masquerades as a lady fortune-teller and as a preacher are splendidly done. K. Lype O'Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...