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...phenomenal $500,000 in promotion the first year of publishing, followed by $400,000 the second year, and $300,000 every year thereafter. It paid off. Originally published in two editions, selling at $6 and $10, Nelson eventually produced 122 editions with a variety of bindings, including a pulpit edition (price: $70 to $120) that sold 25,000 copies. One year the company bought the entire North American catch of sealskin for bindings, had to turn to water buffalo hide from India when that...
...Council of Churches, which still owns the RSV's copyright and last year collected $190,000 in royalties on its sales, began looking around for additional publishers. Of the five new firms, only Philadelphia's A. J. Holman Co. will battle Nelson in the field of expensive pulpit Bibles. The other companies all claim to have some feature all to themselves...
...BEATS ASS OFF HUSBAND went one typical Independent headline above a story telling how a young farm wife in neighboring Camden County had bravely rescued her husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...
...healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament you are about to receive-the sacrament of healing...
Edward Estlin Cummings' father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston's Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: "The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof garden: it's inside...