Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claremont, Calif. With the income from her album, she has set up a medical trust fund for her husband, who is confined to a rest home. Her friends, she says happily, are surprised at her success. Just six years ago, when she made her debut recital at the local Baptist church, only six hardy souls turned out to hear her program of sacred songs. The fortunes of Mrs. Miller began to change when she began making recordings at her own expense, "just for the ducks of it." Her accompanist somehow induced a disk jockey to play one of her songs...
...about all of the 200 invited guests, divided-in deference to Danish jollity and Mrs. Krag's profession-between Washington's with-it set and showbiz notables. Even Press Secretary Bill Moyers, an ordained Baptist teacher, fell into the heady rhythm, joining with Lady Bird's Press Secretary Liz Carpenter in some daring aberrations that bystanders called the "L.BJ." and the "Valenti." In the L.B.J., more caricature than choreography, they shuffled around the floor to the rhythm of the hitchhike, punching each other on the shoulder, "reasoning together," dialing imaginary telephones, grasping hands in the presidential flesh...
...Southern Baptist Convention...
...amateur casting works in general. We avoid the disruptive inongruities we'd get if we recognized, say, Mastroianni as Christ, or Gassman as John the Baptist. Still, one's preconceptions about these familiar characters persist, and mine labelled miscast the Angel of the Lord, Salome, the old Mary, and Judas...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster in his Academy Award-winning performance as a Baptist minister in the screen version of Sinclair Lewis' novel about tent-show Bible-belt religion...