Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Municipal election day came clear and warm last week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding...
...That'll Teach Yuh." The town election last week offered a test of the segregationists' strength; they backed candidates for mayor and three aldermanic posts against men who were willing to accept integration. The Rev. Paul Turner offered another test; he announced that on election day he would escort Negro children from their homes to Clinton high school. Even as Clinton's voters were moving to the polls, Paul Turner walked slowly up Foley's Hill, where he was met half way by six Negro boys and girls...
...within minutes of the attack on the Rev. Paul Turner, a remarkable thing happened: the good people of Clinton, Tenn. began trooping to the polls in record numbers. Recording their disgust, they swamped all segregationist-backed candidates by margins of nearly three to one, elected as mayor coolheaded, fairminded Judge T. Lawrence Seeber, 58. This, far more than the ugly face of the mob, was the true Clinton. In it lay hope for the South...
Others go in for frank pep talks. The Rev. Herbert Garner of Battle Creek's First Presbyterian Church begins his messages with commands such as "Face Issues!" "Don't worry!" "Keep your temper!" Sample message: "Cheer up: the world needs people who are cheerful as much as it needs anything! Some are wise, some wealthy, skillful or famous. But all of us can be cheerful! It doesn't cost anything; in fact, it pays big dividends...
...talk entitled "Cassandra and Atropos: Jeffers and Sitwell," Rev. Wilder praised modern skeptics for rejecting the "perverted version" of the Passion propounded by these and other poets. He felt that the importance of the Crucifixion lies in the "objective intervention" of God, not in the suffering of Christ...