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...crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
...latest "Advocate" has its week points. The remaining three stories are either shallow or not particularly craftsmanlike. And all of the stories show raggedness and a tendency to wander outside their characters, to editorialize on what is going on. The long lead article on evangelist Billy Graham is a repetitive job of reporting; John Rogers' review of "The Cannibal" seems remarkably superficial...
Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...Paterson," a man who sees things just about the way Bill Williams does. In Book I he sketches the "elemental character" of the city and paints vignettes of early settlers. In Book II he walks through the park and counts lost souls: lovers who do not love, an evangelist to whom no one listens, the D.P.s of any modern city with "minds beaten thin by waste...
Stoutly denying any concern with politics, Evangelist Paden appealed to U.S. Ambassador James Dunn for help. In Dallas, 800-odd Churches of Christ members assembled, and 378 signed a protesting telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Texas Congressman Ed Gossett went with a delegation to the State Department where, he said, he warned officials that "if the Italian government runs this orphanage out of Italy, it may have a serious effect on congressional action on European aid funds...