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...think of a time that I ever believed in God or thought it was a miracle of God that I preached," says the voice-over in a new documentary film called Marjoe. "I just knew I could do it well." More's the pity. The narrator, Marjoe Gortner, has been a foot-hopping, finger-jabbing, Jesus-peddling evangelist for more than half of his 28 years, starting at the tough age of 3½. At four, the curly-coiffed, dandied-up moppet stirred up headlines and a legal ruckus by marrying a young sailor and his girl...
...GORTNER Honolulu, T.H. ¶ Says the University of Washington's Dr. Lauren Donaldson, director of the AEC-sponsored investigation at Bikini and Eniwetok: "What we have found, up to 1949, is that radioactivity still contaminates Bikini after three years. The quantities of radioactivity are minute, it is true. But we know that the activity is being circulated about the lagoon and is being retained and concentrated in the tissues of fish, animals and plants. We also know that these concentrations can produce radiation of sufficient intensity to form a hazard to health and life...
...Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Marjoe Gortner married Sailor Raymond Miller, 23, and Alma Brown, 21. Master Gortner, who was ordained last October in the Old Time Faith Church, is four years old. His father, who is a minister in the same sect, assured everybody concerned that the marriage ceremony was perfectly legal...