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...fortune teller, red candles were lighted on the eve of,the Texas A.&M. game, and Texas U. broke an 18-year jinx by beating A.&M. on the enemy's home field. In 1950, Texas broke out the red candles for the second time, and upset Southern Methodist, the nation's No. 1 team. And once more, last week, the red candles burned in campus store windows, dormitories, classrooms and even in a few faculty offices...
Against the referendum were the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Episcopalians, as well as the State Federation of Women's Clubs and the New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers. Protestant pulpits resounded with anti-bingo sermons. Said Methodist Bishop Fred P. Corson: "Gambling is a destructive force in personal and community life. It is just as evil . . . when disguised under the cloak of charity or religion as when it appears openly in the form of slot machines and numbers rackets...
...toppled or tied five major college conference champions last year, and this year has managed to be "up" each Saturday for a backbreaking intersectional schedule that included Oklahoma. Purdue. Pittsburgh. Georgia Tech and Navy. This week it is Pennsylvania. Still to come: North Carolina. Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist...
...Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that he was too controversial. The University of Houston eliminated history programs from its education TV broadcasts, to head off protests that they were also being controversial...
...word Catholic is to be used, it should be preceded by the word Roman ... If our denominations were named as the Roman Church is named, we would be known as Presbyterian Catholics or The Catholic Church (Methodist) or The Lutheran Catholic Church . . . If we omit the word Catholic when referring to our own churches, however, it seems logical that we should also omit it when we mention the Church of Rome...