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...only life member of the N.A.A.C.P. who has publicly endorsed the aims of the John Birch Society. A doer rather than an original thinker, Cushing openly confesses his inability to follow theological argument; yet his lengthy pastoral letters are often eloquent. He is a tireless fund-raiser out of the mold of brick-and-mortar prelates, but his greatness is measured in intangibles: his extraordinary love for people, the good will he has fostered among men of other faiths...
...seemed to be Scranton. And among those who cast hopeful glances in his direction were Leonard Hall, a former G.O.P. National Chairman and one of the party's most astute politicians; New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney; and Trib President Walter Thayer, a big Nixon fund raiser in 1960. But Scranton so far has refused to be crowned...
Kill the Father. An offbeat splinter group, the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Therapy, got into the act by staging a curtain raiser for the main meetings in the form of a Kafka-style reconstruction of the personalities and possible motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Said Manhattan's Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, who invented psychodrama as a medium for acting out emotional disturbances and thereby treating them: "We are all suffering from a tremendous amount of unresolved guilt and confusion over what happened to President Kennedy. After all, if you can 'kill the father...
...fastest-growing area in his church; with his "bishop's cabinet" of nine superintendents, he heads 700 ministers and 460 churches, and his lay membership has grown from 143,000 to 270,000 in twelve years. In church circles, he is admired as a first-rate fund raiser who has built 24 new churches in the past three years. He is also considered a shrewd judge of personnel, with a knack for appointing the right man to the right pulpit-and for trading off weaklings to unsuspecting brother bishops. Kennedy seldom takes work home from the office, spends much...
...poker itself has a nice ring of language. "The raiser came back with a touch, a breath, feeling his way into those checking queens like a man fumbling in the dark." But ultimately the technical side of the novel turns on a confrontation of hands that are bet with a foolishness that belies the experience claimed for the players. Against a pair of tens showing, the Kid's opponent matches a $2,000 bet after three cards on the strength of a possible flush. Win or lose, anyone called The Man ought to be called The Boy for doing...