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...South Benders collected 1500 points, with 63 for first place, from 190 sports writers and broadcasters. Trailing with 1298, 1296, and 1290 were Michigan State, Southern Methodist, and Army...
...Branch, who loves the game as much as the clicking of a Saturday-afternoon turnstile, was never a top man in baseball's ordinary occupations. In his 20s he broke into the majors as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, but he was no star-and besides, Pious Methodist Rickey refused to play on Sundays. He tried managing the St. Louis Browns, but he lacked the temperament to field-boss some of his hardbitten pros. He found himself, and became Innovator Rickey, when he put his college (Ohio Wesleyan) brains to work behind a desk...
...Methodist minister gave the invocation, the Lutheran minister led responsive readings, and Father Kampson of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church pronounced the benediction. Mrs. Einar Olson and her son Ronald played the prelude and postlude. She pumped the old parlor organ and Ronald did his best with an ancient upright piano...
...Official Army sources have now identified "Seoul City Sue" as Mrs. Ann Wallace Suhr, a former American Methodist missionary teacher, who left the mission in the 1930s to marry a Korean leftist. Missionary ex-colleagues believe that Mrs. Suhr broadcasts "under duress" and is "trying to save the life of her husband, and probably her own as well, by broadcasting for the Communists...
Perhaps the most prolific hymn writer of all was Methodism's Charles Wesley, who turned out the words of some 7,000. Hymns were an important means of spreading the Methodist doctrine of salvation for all, as opposed to the dour Puritan teaching of predestination. Wesley's most successful effort: Jesu, lover of my soul, of which Henry Ward Beecher said: "I would rather have written that hymn than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat upon the earth." Brother John Wesley, a busy hymn writer himself, issued some precepts to choirs which, thinks...