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...Senate. He could have bought Brooks Brothers out of the change in his pants pocket; but his baggy blue suits looked as if they had been ordered from a Montgomery Ward catalogue. He was a deeply Christian man who gave at least 30% of his vast wealth to the Baptist church; yet he felt no compunction whatever about using his Senate position to fight for tax laws that would enhance his own riches. He could be gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman was dying, Kerr sat for hours at the bedside, holding his hand in deep grief. But Kerr...
Headquartered in Waco, McCracken's company is housed in a modern, $150,000 building, has an electronic computer for subscription lists; he owns a Beechcraft Bonanza, which he pilots himself to sales meetings. Son of a Baptist preacher, McCracken still finds time to do some lay preaching. "There is more than just a commercial reason for being in any business," he says. "I'm just lucky that I'm able to accomplish so much good in mine...
...Next month Word will offer a seven-LP, six-hour set of Theologian Karl Earth lecturing on evangelical theology. McCracken's current bestseller: the world-traveling Orphans' Choir from Korea. He recently started another record club, which will feature long-play sermons by Christian leaders such as Baptist Billy Graham, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, and Dr. Ralph Sockman, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Methodist Christ Church...
...attitudes rather than erudition, on acting like a Christian as well as knowing about Christianity. "I'd much rather my children show kindness than be able to recite 'Be ye kind, one to another,' " says Mrs. Lawton Kiser of Atlanta's Wieuca Road Baptist Church-and most parents and teachers agree...