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...advertised. (I'm a missionary.) But I wonder if anyone else had the same impression I did concerning the Academy Award presentations. The "best" of the American motion picture industry: a comedy concerning the adulterous use of an apartment; best actor-the portrayal not of an honest evangelist but of a sin-ridden imitation; best actress-in the role of a woman of no virtue. God help us! Doesn't this add up to an awful moral degeneracy in our midst? Aren't the folks in Hollywood, who are responsible, disturbed...
...seem to work, but when he turns to politics, the devil makes him dictator. For all his new-found power, Jose still admires only talent, and he has a collection of great talents on the way to perform in his privately owned nightclub-a Billy Graham-type U.S. evangelist, a Cuban lad whose only skill is sexual proficiency, a cynical ventriloquist. Author Gary manages to have his way about the failure...
...company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost $75,000 in the stock market, taught driving to the novice customers of a Bronx Chevrolet dealer, sold religious statuettes to the followers of Harlem Evangelist Daddy Grace, drove an ambulance for one day and was fired because several passengers all but expired while he searched for the hospitals of the unfamiliar city...
...somewhere, drove to the recruiting station in a stolen car. During four years as a war prisoner in Germany, his light-fingered ways earned him the post of chief smuggler of escape equipment for his fellow prisoners. Back in Australia after the war, Werry was so moved by U.S. Evangelist Hyman Appelman that he volunteered for the O.A.C., became director...
...evangelist of the auto industry, President George Romney of American Motors Corp., announced last week that he was "lighting the candle" for his second crusade. (His first: the compact car.) The new crusade, he declared at a New York press conference, is a "progress-sharing plan to aid the neglected consumer." As of Dec. 1 through March, customers who buy American Motors cars will get rebates of U.S. Savings Bonds if sales increase enough over the year-ago levels...