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Died. Bishop Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer, 71, head (since 1946) of the Methodist Church in Germany, an organizer of the Council of Evangelical Churches of Germany, chairman of a 1945 Methodist congress in Frankfurt which passed resolutions of "guilt and repentance" for Germany's war guilt; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...Recognizing that 21 outstretched hands are better than one, Texas Christian, Southern Methodist, Baylor and 18 other Texas universities and colleges, all of them denominational (both Catholic and Protestant), have banded together for the purpose of collectively soliciting money from business corporations, both within and beyond the borders of Texas. They agreed to split 60% of the take into 21 equal shares, divide up the rest according to enrollment...
Older Protestant churches in Italy, which have complied with the registration laws, have not had any trouble. Said the Rev. Emanuele Shaffi, a Methodist, and chairman of Italy's Federal Council of Evangelical Churches (membership: 60,000): "We enjoy complete freedom of worship . . . We feel that our friends of the Churches of Christ are not entirely in the right...
Southwest. The experts see Texas, Rice and Texas Christian battling it out for the conference title, but they cautiously give a respectful nod to both Southern Methodist and Arkansas...
...hucksters.' " Richard L. Scheidker, of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, wrote that it would be better to "clasp the term 'huckster' to our bosoms . . . use it to describe the bad actors in advertising." Nashville's H. C. Daniels, advertising manager of the Methodist Publishing House, complained that Wakeman's usage had now even got into Webster's. "When it is discovered . . . that I am in the advertising business," wrote Daniels, "there is either a nervous titter or hastily changed conversation...