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...call him Junior," growled the country's angriest columnist at a meeting of the Anti-Communist Christian Crusade in Tulsa. "I have to suit his brattish conniptions." He is "lacking in character, ability or loyalty." The invective was familiar, but the target was new. This time Hearst-man Westbrook Pegler was attacking neither a Roosevelt, nor a labor leader, nor Harry Truman. He was taking on his own boss, William Randolph Hearst...
...foundation of New Testament Christianity is being destroyed," Evangelist Billy James Hargis bellowed into the mike at the Fourth Annual National Convention of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade last week in Tulsa. "God is being attacked from every quarter. Although life under Communism would mean the abolition of worship, certain socialistic, clergymen in the U.S. are propagandizing for unilateral disarmament and ultimately world government including the Communist nations...
Faith & Politics. Among American evangelists, Billy Graham earned national fame for the sincerity of his gripping, Bible-centered oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics. Age 37, he stands a shade under six feet, but weighs almost 275 Ibs., in rolls of fat that start at his jowls and balloon into an elephant-sized waistline. Except when he is drumming up donations, Billy James Hargis is deadly serious onstage-but he nonetheless lays the serious...
Better than Healing. Hargis had relatively little following outside Tulsa until 1954, when a sharp-eyed advertising executive named L. E. ("Pete") White, who had successfully publicized the booming career of Oral Roberts, took an interest. White finds that the anti-Communist angle which Hargis uses is better than either straight evangelism or faith healing. "Radio evangelists probably get less than a dollar a letter," says White. "A lot of those people write in for help without any contribution at all. Anti-Communism is not as big in volume as either healing or evangelism, but the donations run between...
NORMA RIDLEY Tulsa, Okla...