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...Actor Brando, interviewed by a TIME correspondent in his dressing room on the Désirée set, tried hard to scotch such talk and to explain his behavior. "I'll be damned if I feel obliged to defend myself," he burst out in a cultured and fervent half-whisper, "but I am sick to death of being thought of as a blue-jeaned slobbermouth and I am sick to death of having people come up and say hello and then just stand there expecting you to throw a raccoon at them. I have always hated the fact...
Then the entertainment began, swinging from rowdy boogies to fervent waltzes, all in praise of the Lord. First was the Gospel Melody Quartet, then the Harmoneers, featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta...
...make his diplomacy stick, Bishop Tu whipped together a tiny army of fervent Roman Catholics, armed with pikes and smuggled rifles. At its head he put Father Quynh, a tough, angular soldier-priest. Father Quynh was no diplomat. "A Catholic in this country betrays his faith if he is not a soldier," he used to say. "To compromise with Communism is treachery. You must fight-it's the only Christian solution...
...constituent bodies of this council of churches. But I must speak also, inescapably, as one who has seen at first hand the almost miraculous battle field achievements of men bound together by mighty devotion to a worthy cause. A thousand experiences have convinced me . . . that common and fervent dedication to a noble purpose multiplies strength...
...when Determine flashed across the finish line a length and a half in front of Hasty Road (time: a fast 2:03 for the mile-and-a-quarter), Jockey York rode back to the winner's circle and planted a fervent kiss on Determine's winning nose. Then he wept. York, who had ridden Determine in six of seven stakes victories this year, figured that the 80th Kentucky Derby "was Determine's best race-and the best race of them...