Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Editor Louis Seltzer fed Staffer Frank Stewart a fancy lunch one day in 1938 and then "promoted" him to church editor of the Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then...
...Stewart climbed into his car and drove aimlessly until he chanced upon the First Congregational Church on Franklin Boulevard. Its slogan beckoned like a beacon: "Only a Stranger Once." Stewart went in, sat through the service and wrote a folksy column for the Press about the church, its frock-coated, friendly pastor and its "mighty fine" mixed choir...
...years "on the God beat" for the Press since that Sunday, Frank Stewart has been a welcome stranger at 550 of Cleveland's 800 churches, and his Monday column on the editorial page ("A Stranger Goes to Church") has become probably the liveliest and best-read newspaper church column in the U.S. This week, at its first meeting in Buffalo, the Religious Newswriters Association took official note of this; it elected 55-year-old Frank Stewart president...
...slight, mild man who likes bow ties and baseball, Professional Stranger Stewart sprinkles his columns liberally with names, reports on the collection plate, the size of the "house," and the number of times that the congregation stands, sits and kneels. (At the Unity Evangelical Lutheran Church, reported Stewart, "it would be difficult ... to try to snooze" because everybody is always bobbing up & down...
...Roman Catholic Mass last Mother's Day, Stewart noticed one woman leaving abruptly. He followed the police ambulance that raced her to a maternity ward, and landed a story about mother and newborn baby on Page...