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...back in good standing after shedding Zsa Zsa, Hilton constantly composes prayers to the Almighty and has them printed in Hilton employee publications, likes to think that "God is a gentleman." His speeches are sometimes written by a Jesuit Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan of the University of Santa Clara, and at big receptions Hilton does his best to divide his time evenly between the clergy and the pretty girls...
University of Santa Clara ALFRED JOSEPH HITCHCOCK, film director D.H.L...
Gospel music may have seemed a surprise a half-block from Broadway, but Pentecostal churchgoers and sinners "out in radioland" have been hearing it for years, sung with devotion by such groups as the Clara Ward Singers, the Stars of Faith and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Recently, its spirit and style and shouts of "Yeah!" (but rarely the rest of the lyrics) have crept into popular music, but only Mahalia Jackson has been popularly successful with the pure version. A couple of years ago, Brother John Sellers and the Grandison Singers became the first to sing gospel in nightclubs...
...support. It is a vaudeville show, really, started off by a couple of sensational jugglers and featuring a wildly improbable first act finale: a rousing fest of gospel song by the Clara Ward Singers. Nightclub Singer Jane Morgan, tall, strong, blonde, cute-cute, and amply chestiferous, sings well with sex in her throat, and allows Benny to kiss her as if he were Robert Goulet (in mid-embrace, he notices her ring, whips out a jeweler's glass and studies her diamond...
...into such cheerful works as The Innocents Abroad and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; it filled later works like The Mysterious Stranger, virtually blotting out all gaiety. The last writing Twain did, in 1909, was such a lugubrious assault on man and God that Twain's surviving daughter, Clara Samossoud, refused to let it be published. In this, she followed the half-jesting advice of Twain himself. "Tomorrow," he wrote William Dean Howells, "I mean to dictate a chapter which will get my heirs and assigns burned alive if they venture to print it this side...