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...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Dr. Frank R. Lemon of the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda made a joint report to the California Medical Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary...
...said Cavanaugh, a study conducted by the American Mercury found that "for every 100,000 Jews in this country, there are 20 listed in Who's Who; for every 100,000 Seventh-day Adventists, there are eleven in Who's Who; and that, however, for every 100,000 Catholics there are only seven in Who's Who-hardly more than one-third of the proportion of the Jews...
Gearing up for the U.S. Census Bureau's regular ten-year chore, Census Boss Robert W. Burgess announced that once again no questions on religion will be included in the 1960 census. Reason: pressure from such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Jewish Congress, Seventh-day Adventists, some Christian Science organizations, who feel (since the public is required by law to answer census questions) that by asking about religious affiliations, the Government would be violating the doctrine of separation of church and state...
Prison had an extraordinary effect on Corpier. Time after time, members of the local Seventh-Day Adventist church came visiting, brought him a Bible and books to study. "It was the first time in my life," says Corpier, "that anyone had done anything for me that I didn't have to pay for. It made quite an impression." What could Corpier do, he asked himself, to help somebody else? Last summer he persuaded Associate Warden T. M. Woodruff of the New Mexico state prison to let him start a course in electronics for convicts...
...Seventh-Day Adventists sent postcards to names culled from the telephone directory to entice students into their Bible classes, with optimum results...