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...three were joined by a broad-shouldered young man whose machine-knitted jersey celebrated a leaping swordfish. then by a pretty young Negro woman in her best clothes with a sleeping baby in her arms. Suddenly there were too many to count, standing on the trampled grass in the blaze of lights. Some of them wept quietly, some of them stared at the ground and some looked upward...
...Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's urging, Billy went to the tabernacle with his good friend. Grady Wilson. For a week the two boys quailed under the gimlet gaze of Mordecai. who seemed to be searching out their most secret sins. Then they joined the choir so they could stand behind him, but there was no hiding place...
Mill St., between Lowell and Winthrop, has been particularly hard hit with a rash of tickets. Last year there was considerable agitation when fire trucks could not enter Mill St., to fight a blaze in Winthrop House...
...Blaze of the Sun, by Jean Hougron (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If all the Frenchmen in Indo-China behaved more or less like the ones in this novel, no wonder they lost the war. Amid all the offensives and ambushes, Novelist Hougron's characters worry chiefly about who goes to bed with whom-or more particularly, with My-Diem, a shapely Annamite who used to be a Communist agent, married a French colonial official and, before the book is over, earns herself one of the hottest spots in the Buddhist hell by committing adultery with yet another Frenchman. Along...
...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...