Word: hallelujah
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...film tells it, Marjoe was a child of corruption, born in a collection basket. When he was four, his evangelist parents took him to a Los Angeles rescue mission and had him ordained as a minister of the Old Time Faith Church. Then the family hit the hallelujah trail around the independent Pentecostal churches of the South and the Midwest. When Marjoe preached, according to the film, his parents cued him with prayerful exclamations ("Praise God!" meant the audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make him learn his lines...
...degree from Columbia University at age 64 and to teach mentally retarded children. Last week the American Mothers Committee named Mrs. Moore, a widow, Mother of the Year. She is the second black to receive the award since it was initiated 37 years ago. Mrs. Moore's reaction: "Hallelujah...
Trumpets blared. Fireworks exploded. Drums and cannons thundered. A 700-voice chorus sang hallelujah. A band played The Ballad of Rainbow and Snow. Eight hundred Japanese children on ice skates released 18,000 multicolored balloons into the air. More than 1,000 athletes from 35 countries paraded in their winter finery. And right in the middle of it all was the old ringmaster himself, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). In calling upon Emperor Hirohito officially to open the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, last week, Brundage said: "May the Olympic code of fair play...
...Hurray and hallelujah for the do-gooders. That name still makes people sound like goody-goodies, but you have proved there's no sissiness about the guts that these people have and the good work that they...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. -midnight). Teetotalers v. boozers on The Hallelujah Trail. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Martin Landau enhance the scenery...