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...Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...
Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...fitting close. Shining in a white dinner jacket, he proclaimed that the traditional inscription on Jesus' cross, INRI (Latin abbreviation for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews), was inappropriate: "We have coined a new phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...
...Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms' Chevation, by 3½ lengths...
...symbols, Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lee Professor of Medieval History, was "invested" as Master of Kirkland House by President Pusey last night. Finding the term "installation' 'inadequate, Taylor said he felt that the ceremony was more like an investiture, especially with the long, flowing robes, the ever-present choir, and the attendance of a "baron," or college master, from Yale...