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Nabors, who offstage is only slightly less gentle than Gomer, went to Los Angeles in 1958 not to feed his ambition but to foil his asthma. He worked as an apprentice film cutter, sang on amateur nights at a club called The Horn. TV's Andy Griffith dropped by one night, liked his country-bumpkin patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like...
...body too?" Christy Huddleston, the new 19-year-old mission schoolmarm, can handle that question easily, but God and the reader have their task cut out for them in this relentlessly uplifting honeypot. A first novel by the author of A Man Called Peter, this book tells of the Cutter Gap mountain mission in East Tennessee back in 1912: isolated mountaineers, moonshine, feuds, babies. Author Marshall concentrates laboriously on three priggish mission staffers: the dewy-eyed Christy, a saintly Quaker lady, and a bombastic young preacher. The women are courageous and silent sufferers, the men are boys, the children...
...most responsible is a burly, black labor leader named Ted Watkins, 44, a born cajoler, red-tape cutter and pragmatic humanitarian whose Watts Labor Community Action Committee has shown an uncanny ability to attract outside help while galvanizing Watts from within. Watkins and fellow...
...BOWMAN CUTTER...
...took an oath to support the Constitution on becoming a member of the bar, did you not, Mr. Berlin?" Cutter asked. "Did you feel 'menaced' then...