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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a 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...
...work together. They got married in 1935, set to spreading the Gospel in 38 states, then settled down in Oakland seven years ago. Under the chilly scrutiny of the Oakland Council of Churches, they started holding revivals and set up three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word...
Perhaps the best course for Harvard to take is to completely drop football. You will at least be sure of not getting into any more embarrassing situations like the Stanford flasco. Norman L. Van Patten Herkeley, Calif...
...Harvard Radio Network, elected the following officers at its annual meeting last night: President, Clyde G. Patten '51 Business Manager, Mareus White '51. Production Director, David G. Hays '51, Program Director, Igor Kipnis '52, and Technical Director, Dwight B. Minnich...
...film is better than its performances. As a paunchy, middle-aged adjutant, Dean Jagger without his toupee seems to have launched an entirely new career. Broadway's Gary Merrill, playing the general's nerve-racked predecessor, adds considerably to the picture's conviction. Hugh Marlowe, Robert Patten, John Kellogg, Millard Mitchell and Paul Stewart are all able actors in top form. If Hollywood had no star system, the difficult central role would call for an actor of more physical maturity than Gregory Peck. Nonetheless, Star Peck rises above the handicap with a strong, beautifully modulated performance that...