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...nation's most successful and adventurous mission church. Part of its success stems from the fact that it has the money to make its missions work: the church has an annual income of $350,000, the bulk of it from the estate of Lizzie Glide, a devout widow of an oil tycoon, who left $1,000,000 to the church in 1936. Once a sedate, middle-class parish, Glide gradually lost much of its original white membership with the coincidental decay of its surrounding neighborhood. Four years ago, when the Rev. Lewis Durham of Los Angeles was named head...
Powell has not been home for nearly a year, fearing that he will be clapped into jail on contempt charges springing from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Harlem widow. Although the faithful overwhelmingly endorsed him yet again in a special election last April to fill the House seat vacated by his exclusion, Powell remained ensconced on Bimini with his former secretary Corinne Huff. Two weeks ago, he did interrupt his endless summer long enough to spirit himself into Washington for an hour's testimony before a federal grand jury looking into his possible misdeeds...
...American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers as I. M. Pei and the late Eero Saarinen). At Ironwood, Mich., she dedicated a park. At Avoca and Spring Green, Wis., she toured a dairy farm and chatted with the widow of Frank Lloyd Wright. ID. Madison, after spending the night with Republican Governor and Mrs. Warren Knowles, she talked to 3,000 youngsters attending the World Youth Forum of the World Food Exposition. Then she flew back to Washington...
Died. Matilda Dodge Wilson, 83, heiress and philanthropist; of a heart attack; in Brussels. Widow of Automaker John Dodge (who left her some $44 million) and wife of Millionaire Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson, she was a director of numerous companies and a trustee of Michigan State University (then a college) from 1932 to 1938. Her most munificent gift was a $10 million package of land and cash donated to M.S.U. in 1957 for the founding of a new school: suburban Detroit's Oakland University, which now has an enrollment of 3,800 students...
With his cast, Jewison is uneasy. Poitier, a perfectly competent actor, ends up doing just what he has done in his last dozen interchangeable movies. And Lee Grant, as a bereaved widow, overacts like crazy, feigning grief by endlessly shaking her head. Predictably, the most impressive performance is that of Rod Steiger, but even his is shrouded in the high-television fakery that dominates the movie...