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...born and raised in the dusty hamlet of Clyde, Texas. Despite his worldly success, his huge barbecue parties, his orchid-colored Cadillac, he retained many traits from his Bible belt upbringing. He never drank, never uttered a cuss word, frequently delivered sermons as a Church of Christ lay preacher. He had a rule that, except for married couples, males and females (including children) could not swim in his pool at the same time...
Unforgettable Character. All this is due to the beneficence of Macalester's Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Editor DeWitt Wallace. Wallace, 72, was born at tiny Macalester four years after it opened in 1885. His father, Dr. James Wallace, a Presbyterian preacher and a Greek scholar, was president for a dozen years, and saved the place from bankruptcy. Wallace graduated from neither Macalester nor the University of California, where he later put in a couple of years. But he has poured money into Macalester ever since he got rich selling homily grits...
...Rabbit, Run, John Hersey's The Child Buyer, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The present novel is a sequel to Kronos. The fantasy is gone. It is a straightforward account of the life of John Donner's fa ther, a country preacher...
Little Corn. Presumably this is Richter's own clergyman father. Religion can be a heavy garment for the young. If the preacher's son can be taken for Rich ter himself, he found the religious atmosphere oppressive - "his ear assailed by the peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner...
Steve Botein occasionally founders on the dialect, but he is generally effective as Preacher Haggler. In the church scene, he is overpowering as, sweating profusely, he shouts down the devil. Arthur Roberts competently plays Marvin Hudgens, who lusts after Barbara Allen, and Sarah Leary and Rosalind Miller are two of the sexiest, most fetching little witches you could ever hope...