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Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler, he is a twice-over tither; i.e., he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said...
With John V. Farwell and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody in charge, the Y. barged into the Civil War with a vengeance, charged into Army camps, held as many as ten prayer meetings a night. In his spare time, silver-tongued Methodist Moody went on the prowl for gamblers, exhorted them to trade in their playing cards for hymnals (legend has it the Y. was soon stuck with a storeroomful of decks...
Disillusion sets in almost with the first broiling Mexican sunrise. Thorn's first hero, a boy browbeaten into memorizing the Old Testament by an evangelist father, says in shame and confusion that he outshot 30 Villistas because "the Lord took hold of me" (actually he hates his father and loathes religion). Another makes it apparent that he charged an almost impregnable position alone because he thought it would look good on his record. A foolish, dull-eyed boy vaulted a gate and opened it under hailing fire because he was too stupid to imagine being shot...
...title piece of this strange short-story collection, an emotionally disturbed child kicks his father in the groin. In Don't Call Me by My Right Name a man and wife take turns beating each other up. In Plan Now to Attend a hypocritical evangelist gets blind drunk in midmorning. In Sound of Talking a crippled husband makes his wife share his suffering. Almost all the women characters are fat and fortyish; almost all the men are shamed and unhappy. The poor are most often feebleminded, the rich vicious...
...full-fledged revival session, that drew a crowd of several hundred people into the Square on Saturday afternoon, caused the stoppage of all traffic for nearly a half-hour, and eventually resulted in the arrest of a 40-year-old evangelist, along with 12 of his disicples...