4 1/2 Baptists

Baptists were pleased last week to learn (from the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs) that four candidates (or presumed candidates) for the presidency are Baptists--Harry Truman, Estes Kefauver, Harold Stassen and Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. The committee also concluded that California's Earl Warren is at least a half-Baptist; he was raised a Methodist, but usually attends the Baptist church of his wife and daughters.*

* Other candidates (or presumed" candidates): Dwight Eisenhower (brought up in the Brethren in Christ church, now an "intensely religious" nonsectarian), Robert Taft (Episcopalian), Douglas MacArthur (Episcopalian), Adlai Stevenson (Unitarian).

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