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...invariably called liquor "booze," and interviewed heiresses and potentates around the globe. Last week Star readers might have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...
...Sawdust Trail. A Toronto boy, Templeton set pole-vaulting and track records as a schoolboy athlete, quit high school to take art lessons and play football for Toronto's Balmy Beach. At 20 he was a sports cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and syndicated in 18 papers when, as he later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher...
...Templeton took his bride on a visit home to Toronto, noticed an unused church building on Avenue Road for rent, leased it, and within six months had a going congregation of 1,000. By 1946 he felt the call to evangelism again and led a "Youth for Christ" crusade through Europe with Billy Graham. His next stop was Princeton Theological Seminary; after three years he left the seminary to be ordained a Presbyterian minister. "He so evidently cares about people," said one of his teachers, "that every last man in an audience of 6,000 or 8,000 feels Templeton...
...Questioned . . ." In 1956 Templeton overturned his life: he left both the ministry and his wife. "I questioned my own certitude about Christianity," he explained. When he came out of retreat, he had confirmed his decision to leave the ministry and went into television. Among Templeton's fans was Star Editor-in-Chief Beland Honderich, who hired him to edit the Star's news-background page...
Tiring of conversation with reporters his first day out, Templeton approached Steven Cohen, a sophomore shot putter, who was having his troubles. He worked with Cohen's body position for a moment and said, "Go thead and throw one." Cohen threw, and the shot landed two feet past the best previous mark. "That's the best I've felt in two weeks," Cohen remarked, and Templeton beamed with satisfaction...