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Back from Sin. One of the earliest efforts was a store-front ministry called the Living Room. It was the joint creation of three Bay Area evangelical ministers, John MacDonald of First Baptist Church in Mill Valley, John Streater of First Baptist in San Francisco, and Edward Plowman of Park Presidio Baptist Church in the city. To communicate with the hip settlers in Haight-Ashbury, the three hired Ted Wise, now 33, a burly Sausalito sailmaker and former drug user who had been converted through MacDonald. Before long, Wise decided that "to bring them back from sin," he first...
...Breland was personnel manager of Streater Industries outside Minneapolis, where he used his psychology on human subjects. He got interested in training animals by psychological methods, and was so successful with hamsters, pigeons, chickens and other unpromising trainees that he found he could sell them, when educated, to General Mills Inc. for use in advertising stunts. In 1947 he quit his human psychology job, and in 1950 he and his wife Marian moved to a farm in Arkansas, where they set up an animal school that has turned out more than 5,000 psychologically educated graduates...
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