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Last week, before 14,000 people. Showman Michaux brought his series to a fitting close. Shining in a white dinner jacket, he proclaimed that the traditional inscription on Jesus' cross, INRI (Latin abbreviation for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews), was inappropriate: "We have coined a new phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...
Reaction abroad is summed up in a cable sent Fair Director Roy F. Williams from the Salonika Fair in Greece this month: "Attendance 52,000 our exhibit. Total fair attendance 52,000." In the program's second year, with more exhibits than ever and bookings at 18 fairs, Showman Williams predicts: "We'll double last year's attendance or bust...
...Sweet Georgia Brown" were the same red, white and blue uniforms which have gained them world-wide renown, as well as capacity crowds wherever they go, but as far as this crowd was concerned, the Globetrotters could have stayed in New York. Gone from the lineup was the showman Goose Tatum; gone from the floor was the remarkable dribbler Leon Hilliard--in short, the Globetrotters were just a basketball team, and not a show company...
Hardly less extraordinary than the service or the church is the man largely responsible for them both, 40-year-old Father Paul Bureth. St. Anne's financial angel and a first-rank showman...
...more immediate project in mind. For designing the church (without fee), French Architect Robert Erell, a Protestant, was awarded the Order of St. Sylvester by the Pope. This, according to Bureth, entitles Erell by ancient 'custom to enter St. Anne's Church on horseback. Showman Bureth is arranging to have the architect ride into church astride a horse just before the Canoemen's Mass on Whitsunday...