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...March 1946, he had a heart attack during a sermon, finished what he was saying, and then was helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where...
...President," said Chief Justice Fred Vinson, "will you raise your right hand?" Harry Truman's right hand went up, his left stretched out to rest on two Bibles: a White House copy, opened at the Sermon on the Mount, and a copy of the Gutenberg edition, opened at the Ten Commandments...
...Notice. In Jefferson City, Mo., Prison Trusty M. T. McDonald finished off his weekly sermon at the penitentiary with the text: "I go to prepare a place for you . . . that where I am, there ye may be also," a few hours later escaped...
...evidence against him [he] made a confession." But, so far, the Communists have not published any confession, with or without his signature. Cardinal Mindszenty, despite the human frailty he knew, was a strong man. Just before his arrest, he had written: "This is now the word of the Sermon on the Mount: 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...
That Wonderful Urge (20th Century-Fox) is a stale, wearisome slapstick sermon on the text "You, Too, Can Be Happy, Though Rich." The example is a tabloid reporter (Tyrone Power) who writes scurrilous stories about a chain-store heiress (Gene Tierney). Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...