Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEODORE FLOYD ADAMS, 62, president of the Baptist World Alliance (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1955), has been pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church since 1936 and has seen his congregation rise from 1,600 members to 4,100. Regarded as perhaps the Baptists' most distinguished preacher, Adams is firmly on record as opposed to segregation...
...forefront-although the Baptists never took to the "Social Gospel." Today, hellfire and brimstone revivalists are increasingly scarce, and though emotion-packed evangelism is still part of every Baptist sermon, more and more Baptist preachers are university-trained. They read the classics, study foreign languages, keep informed on science. Richmond's Theodore Adams quotes Kierkegaard in his sermons; Pastor Blake Smith of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas likes to quote Balzac, while New Orleans' J. D. Grey is likely to make his points with tags from poets and philosophers...
...When Richmond fell in the spring of 1865, Jefferson Davis fled south to the hamlet of Danville, Va. There he held his last cabinet meeting in a local mansion, which proudly endures as "the last Capitol of the Confederacy." The old mansion has another use: it is the Danville Public Library. Last week that function was all but forgotten in a remarkable "integration" plan to keep readers with black skins off the premises...
...rules are even tougher than those in Russian libraries, which are tough enough. "Lunacy," commented the Richmond News-Leader. "Have members of Danville's city council, doing research on a term paper, ever read a book standing up? Have they ever read a book? If it is too much to ask in these situations for a lot of common sense, could we humbly ask for just a little common sense? If a measure of foolishness is unavoidable, do we have to break records...
...hopeless task of teaching Rookie Second Baseman Marve Breeding how to pivot on the double play. "Baseball is repetition," says Richards. "Hundreds of moves all over again. All spring we worked with Breeding, and he couldn't quite make it. Then, ten minutes before an exhibition game in Richmond, he caught on. He got it. The double play." Adds Coach Harris: "I bet Richards showed Breeding what he was doing wrong 500 times. It was the 501st time that Breeding caught on. He won't give up, that Richards...