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...fresh Florida day in Winter Haven (one of God's waiting rooms), where the old gray heads in the grandstand seem to go back to Abner Doubleday, baseball has gone back to baseball. Last season was interrupted for 50 games by shrill lawyers and labor leaders, and the grace note of laughter never quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Springs Eternal | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...response to the letter of October 15 by Alan L. Jackson, Errol T. Louis, Abner A. Mason and Brian M. Weber--members of the William J. Seymour Society--we, too, as Christians of African descent, pray that Blacks will also heed the biblical wisdom imparted by Proverbs, Chapter 25, Verses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...Cont. | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. --Alan L. Jackson --Errol T. Louis --Abner A. Mason Jr. --Brian M. Weber Members, the William J. Seymour Society

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wasting Newsprint | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...first row who sits next to the windows? I mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some jealousy when she went on to get the leads in Li'l Abner and Oklahoma. The present Bernards High drama teacher, a veteran road-company actor named Dick Everhart, happened to be applying for a job when Meryl played Laurie in Oklahoma. Her enormous natural gift was clear even then. Says he: "When she walked on the stage there was nobody else there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Meryl Magic | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...fiery redhaired, old-style prairie stem-winder. Last year his First Southern Baptist Church in Del City listed 2,027 baptisms by immersion, a record for the S.B.C. and, presumably, any other U.S. Protestant group. In opposition to Smith's candidacy, anti-Smith moderates fielded distinguished, disarming Abner McCall, 66, former president of Baylor University. McCall was described by his backers as "a Lincoln who can preserve this Baptist union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible Brouhaha | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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