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...late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pulpit at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a launching platform for an often influential, always controversial 24-year career in Congress. Now the believers at Abyssinian have elected a new pastor, but he vows to succeed Powell only in the pulpit. "I have no political ambitions," says the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, 51. "A church needs care from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American...
...American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man. It may be just a shade too enthusiastic in its use of exclamation points ("Then he heard a voice!"), and sometimes a bit of color seems to be lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image...
Canny Foots. Dr Pepper's northern invasion was started by W.W. Clements, who began as a route salesman and was then marketing vice president; he became president in 1969. Clements is a strict Alabama Baptist who likes to be called by his childhood nickname of "Foots." In between slugging down at least ten Dr Peppers a day and puffing on as many fat cigars, he blurts out a cracker-barrel version of the ads' philosophy: "Once I get Dr Pepper down their throats and tell them about it, I'm in business." He is a canny marketer...
...engaging way with his lines and songs-which is only natural, since he writes some of each. (One of his earlier songwriting efforts, Never Can Say Goodbye, earned a gold record for the Jackson Five in December.) One of 15 children born to a Baptist preacher, Davis grew up outside of Boston, once cleaned hamburger stands for a living and, like Moore, got his acting start in a Broadway chorus. At 26, he is a star of Broadway's Two Gentlemen of Verona...
...Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus Christ...