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...METHODIST CHURCH PARK RIDGE...
...churches have had so much difficulty finding all the poor parishioners that for the past three years they have relied on a newspaper campaign to search out needy families for their annual "White Christmas" baskets of food, toys and clothes. ¶In Nashville, the McKendree Memorial Methodist Church found it had to liberalize its definition of "needy" and, even so, managed to give away only three-fourths as many baskets as last year...
...Methodist Church published results of its first nationwide opinion poll of Methodists. Among those polled, total abstinence from alcohol was endorsed by 68.9%, slightly more than were opposed to breaking the speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
Wrote Dr. George S. Reamey, the editor of the Virginia Methodist Advocate: "Our public-school system needs stronger protection. We are in danger of throwing out the baby with the bath...
Personality: A devout Methodist from the middle class, he is exception to Tory pattern of leadership, which is Anglican, Etonian and upper class. He lives modestly in a Belgravia apartment with his young (27) wife, his former secretary whom he married in 1951, and three-year-old daughter; dresses immaculately in Savile Row suits, sports a Foreign Office bowler with aplomb, is supremely sure of himself...