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...Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike in a hurry, Christmas might be merely one of the year's colder days...
...Methodist Layman Mott is the grand old man of Protestant world unity, has been a leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
...royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys thought otherwise. Had he not dreamed up his claim to the Turkish throne while working as a pants presser in London? Cried...
This week, in a sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...
...rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...