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SOUTH BEND, Indiana -- Until last Saturday afternoon Temple Drake was just another pretty face in the long blonde line of Purdue majorettes, distinguished by little save a saucy turned-up nose, a reputation in certain Purdue circles as a tease, and an inside track on being Golden Girl in 1969. But Saturday afternoon, as yet another football confrontation faded into hallowed memory, Temple Drake did her thing. Saturday afternoon, as the other majorettes giggled and primped for the night's festivities, Temple Drake became as one with Paul of Harvard Divinity and Ray of Boston U. and Mike...
...Temple Drake is still in sanctuary. The days have not been easy and the pressures have been intense and Temple Drake cries a lot, the hot tears in odd juxtaposition to the rosy cheeks down which they slowly fall. The temptation to give in, to surrender and accept the harsh discipline imposed by the Purdue Marching Band, must be great. But Temple Drake perserves--and in her perseverance is a shining example for beleaguered youth everywhere...
...Temple Drake--her friends call her Tempie--came reluctantly to her sudden heroism. She really would have preferred just to endure, stoically accepting the hardships and indignities of Band life, certain in the knowledge that her agony ultimately would end. But her conscience would not let her. She began to lose sleep and weight and she was put on the Undesirable List at the Deke House...
...terribly moving thing, listening to Temple Drake talk about her days in the Band. "When I enlisted," she says with the hint of a lump in her luscious little throat, "I was just naive. I thought bands were supposed to do good things. Oh, like, you know, make people happy with gay music and inspire Love of Country with the national anthem. Things like that...
...that weren't bad enough, on Saturday morning Tempie refused to get on the Band bus for the Minnesota game. The Band Master looked her hard in the eye and asked: "Aren't you going to Minnesota, Miss Drake?" She looked him harder in the eye and shouted: "Heck no, I won't go!" Whereupon the Band Master put her in handcuffs and sent her to Minnesota under the guard of two tuba players. "What they did to me," she says, "was forced induction...