Word: rayburnisms
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...Palais Schaumburg office, der Alte got congratulations and gifts, sipped German wine and, as one admiring newsman neatly put it, stood through four hours of the celebration "straight as the No. 1." In Washington, both sides of the House of Representatives gushingly vied to pay tribute to Speaker Sam Rayburn, turning 78 and rolling into his 47th year in Congress, his 15th as Speaker. Before taking the annual flattery with a practiced shrug, Mr. Sam observed: "I've never been sick in my life. I never did feel bad. I feel good now. If I keep feeling like...
...many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed to Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's candidacy...
Sunday school is mostly boring, decided a young Kansas-born Presbyterian minister named James Rayburn, and he felt that it was up to him to do something to bring the Bible alive for teenagers. In 1940 he organized a group in Dallas called Young Life. It grew slowly, gained considerable impetus as Rayburn acquired three ranches in Colorado and a bankrupt vacation resort in British Columbia known as Malibu Beach. The prospect of spending a summer week or more at one of these layouts for a nominal fee of $35 a week did wonders to stimulate the interest of potential...
Last week Founder Rayburn faced a stern denunciation of Young Life. Its authors: five of the leading Protestant ministers* in exurban New Canaan, Conn, (pop. 11,200). Over their names appeared a public statement warning parents against Young Life...
...Founder Rayburn snapped back at once: "There is professional jealousy in the ministry as well as in other fields. Young Life is not a teen-age church at all. It's a recruiting program for the church. I am sure we are not narrow unless the Apostles' Creed is narrow. Some of our critics want to drag us into the old static framework. If that were done, the Young Life campaign wouldn't work any better than what they are doing. Far too many pastors talk about daffodils and robin redbreast. We believe it is sinful...