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...crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
...Bebe decided to do the Lord's work together. They got married in 1935, set to spreading the Gospel in 38 states, then settled down in Oakland seven years ago. Under the chilly scrutiny of the Oakland Council of Churches, they started holding revivals and set up three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give...
...prison, Montgomery tried to make the most of his ride on the slow train to nowhere. He struck up a friendship with a more famous prisoner, Nathan ("Bebe") Leopold of Chicago's sensational Leopold & Loeb slaying, and from him learned how to read and write. After that he kept pretty much to himself, read a lot and spent his leftover time hoping for justice...
With a chaperone in tow, Bebe (Miss America) Shopp, 18, did a bit of touring in Europe. (Breathed a goggling French customs officer: "Quelle femme!") In London, Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect...
Died. Christian ("Bebe") Berard, 46, French artist and designer of costumes and theatrical sets (Beauty and the Beast, The Madwoman of Chaillot), credited with inspiring fashion's 1947 New Look; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...