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Like all good Mormons, Ezra Taft Benson has served his young man's term (1921-23, in Great Britain) as a missionary for the church. So has his son Reed, 28, who spent 30 months abroad, and for two years more was an Air Force chaplain. Last week the Bensons, father and son, were at large in the U.S. doing another kind of missionary work: trying to propagate the faith in Benson's policy, which is under broadside attack from the farm belt...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
...first night Taft attended the tent show of the Rev. Jack Coe of Dallas, who has been drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood...
...hackles, as it was a brief endorsement of it in the letters-to-the-editor column of the February issue of the magazine. "I have read the article," the letter said, ". . . with a great deal of interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later...
EDWARD R. MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...