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...early as July 9, sources within the mayor's office had predicted that White would "probably" sign the proposal, because David L. Rosenbloom, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Hospitals and a member of the advisory committee which suggested thee guidelines, is a White appointee...
...cornet sings out the opening tones of a familiar old hymn. Quickly, other voices surge forth, trombones, saxophones, a beseeching clarinet, trumpets, tubas. The sound of Just a Closer Walk with Thee throbs across the leafy neighborhood of rundown houses, gas stations, union hall, stores and churches. It is late in the year, but the weather is soft. Just above, on the elevated expressway, traffic whips by, but on the ground the slow beat of the music warps the day's rhythm into a doleful sway...
...procession creeps forward, passing the squat, faded hall of Hod Carriers Local Union 153, a one-story commercial social center (AVAILABLE FOR ANY OCCASION), the New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, white with green trim. Lead Me, Savior has followed Just a Closer Walk with Thee, and soon the dirge is What a Friend We Have in Jesus. The band is taking up The Old Rugged Cross as it comes to a halt under some towering live oaks: the front yard of Corpus Christi Catholic Church...
...King James is no longer the single predominant American Bible, though, for a number of reasons. First, it is often confusing, especially for the young. The problem goes well beyond thee and thou or verb forms like loveth. Numerous words have changed meaning over the centuries. In current terms feeble-minded in 1 Thessalonians 5: 14 ("Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak ...") actually means fainthearted. Today King James syntax is hard going for a general public better attuned to thrillers than Shakespeare...
...cathode, you lusteth after false profits." And the three elders saith unto the Lord God: "Forgive us, O Lord, but we must make offerings to the false idol Nielsen, which is an hungry beast. Give us but a sign, a word, a story idea, that we may please thee and the 2,300 houses of the children of Nielsen." And then the Lord God spoke unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission of my messengers Peter and Paul. And to you, ABC, I say that you shall relate the story...