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...drunk as a skunk," says the preacher, leering just...
...soon, the sham preacher helps a cattle rustler escape from jail. Persuaded to hide the hot-blooded crook in her Pullman berth, Catherine (Jane Fonda) begins to reveal a flair for lawlessness and disorder that turns out to be her most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin...
...Civil War, the plot tells of a twelve-year-old runaway (Edward Albert, son of Eddie) who recalls the nightmarish myth of the Fool Killer when he falls in with a former soldier (Tony Perkins) suffering from amnesia and other psychic ills. After the ax murder of a revivalist preacher, Perkins disappears, but returns unexpectedly once the boy has settled down with a childless couple (Dana Elcar, Salome Jens). The inevitable night of terror holds few surprises, though it does set pulses pounding on behalf of Actress Jens, who gives a dull role simple warmth...
...entering class at Maine's Bangor Theological Seminary, a school that specializes in training men with "delayed vocations," one student was in his 60s, another was 52. Yet nonclerical experience often gives these men a rapport with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators-finds his sports background invaluable in counseling youthful members of his church in Monrovia...
Distorted & Mistaken. Was the "mercy killing" justified? In the case of Mary Happer, clergymen think, the answer was clearly no. "It seems that Miss Happer still possessed a good deal of vitality," says Dr. Charles Philip Price, Episcopal preacher at Harvard. "The act of taking her life could be at best a distorted and mistaken decision." One of High Oaks's directors, in fact, insists that Mary was responding well to the spiritual treatment. Even if she was certain to die, argue pastors, no one has the right to take into his own hands the decision to shorten another...