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Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships him. Not so a fervent young Communist (Vincent Sherman) with a broken head who convincingly berates Lawyer Simon as a traitor to his class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never...
...Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...
...Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting urn was the signal for fervent female demonstrations, shrill appeals to the Holy Virgin to see that the election came out right...
Headed by a Mrs. Louisa Pottesman, 30 fervent women have been buzzing about London for months, collecting other women's signatures. Collectors and signers had one thing in common-all had been patients of a young gynecologist named Harold Burt-White. The collectors hunted everywhere, some even loitering outside hospitals watching for faces they had seen in Dr. Burt-White's waiting room...