Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Episcopalian Bess Truman was horrified, called out to Harry to stop-but he seemed not to hear. Recalls Bess: "I had to walk before the Baptists and the Methodists and tell him to stop cutting the grass on Sunday morning. He grinned at me, shut off the mower, put it in the garage-and he has not cut a blade of grass since that Sunday morning...
...Same Kind of Guy. The Rev. William Hamilton Alexander seems to know what his people need. In fact, he knows his people so well that in the 14 years he has been pastor of Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, he has managed such pastoral unconventionalities as Sunday evening dances in the church recreational hall, an address to the state legislature urging repeal of liquor prohibition, a race for the U.S. Senate (against "Mike" Monroney), and a quiet domestic interchange (a campaign aide married the former Mrs. Alexander, and Pastor Bill married the ex-wife of the aide, after...
...iced fruit drink after the service. The [U.S.] minister seems to feel he is in a competitive world where other loyalties attract, and that he must 'sell' religion ... I have been very impressed with the consequent emphasis on 'plant,' on technical efficiency, on grading in Sunday-school work . . . with the willingness of lay people to accept responsibility in terms of finance and service...
Bishop Albert Bereczky of Hungary's Reformed Church proudly announced that Hungarian Protestants had contributed some $17,000 in a single Sunday to help finance the gathering, and called on the council "to do everything it could toward obtaining a ban on arms of massive destruction and toward throwing a bridge between different countries." Dr. O. Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, told the meeting that "experimental tests of nuclear weapons should be discontinued, limited or controlled." His plea was solidly backed by Sir Kenneth Grubb of London, Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...Minneapolis' annual "Aquatennial" wound up ten days of parades, stage and water shows (featuring the Aqua Follies, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, a water-ski circus and Rin-Tin-Tin) with Evangelist Billy Graham. In one Sunday-morning session he outpulled them all with an overflow audience of 21,000 and 500 "decisions for Christ." Aquatennial directors, said the show business weekly Variety, will try to bring him back next year. ¶ President Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorizing commercial airlines to grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations...