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...according to Editor Carty: Bill Wade, quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville...
...Admitted five new member churches: the U.S.'s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1,000,000 members), the Burma Baptist Convention (200,000 members), the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (20,000 members), the Christian Reformed Churches in Indonesia (2,300 members) and the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, B.W.I. (12,000 members...
Topping 1,000,000 circulation for the first time with its August 10 issue, Presbyterian Life announced proudly last week that it now reaches the "largest number of Christians assembled in one list since the birth of Jesus." Apace with the resurgence of religion in the U.S., the church-sponsored, slick-paper biweekly in less than ten years has grown into the world's biggest paid-circulation religious magazine and has helped to make sweeping changes in the economics and editorial approach of religious journalism...
Most copies of Presbyterian Life are sold directly to churches, which undertake to sign up members of the congregation at $1 a year (v. $2 for individual mail subscribers), thus can sell advertising space (1956 ad revenue: $402,000) on the basis of audited circulation. The magazine is put out by a ten-man lay staff under onetime Holiday Staffer Robert J. Cadigan, aims at general family readership with sharp picture layouts and easy-to-take text pieces...
Dick was brought up to become nothing less than a repository of Southern traditions and an exemplar of Southern character. Father was a Presbyterian and mother a Methodist, a strict disciplinarian who wielded the peachtree switch and leather strap on the children "until the blood came." Twice, before Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman...