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...fortune that his parents kept from him, was doomed at 28 to a freakish sort of fame. That's the way ex-Evangelist Marjoe Gortner told it in the movie about his life, Marjoe. His father, Vernon Gortner, 69, disagrees. "I heard constantly from him before the movie broke," he said, but when the elder Gortner saw the film, "it was all I could do to choke back tears. Now he's told so many untruths he's afraid to face me. There never was such a sum. If it was money I was after...
Injuries have robbed the Crimson squad of starters Vernon Adams and Tom Pagnim, but otherwise the club is healthy...
McKinley cited Crimson forwards Adrian D.C. Jew, Bill Jemison, Carl Lapinski and Tom Pegnim as standouts. He also lauded Hanna's play. Harvard's Vernon Adams left the game with a sprained ankle with eight minutes remaining, and two other players broke their noses. "Physically, though, it wasn't as tough as most games," McKinley concluded...
...appointive position in the municipal government. One of Cooper's first postelection acts, in fact, was to visit the disabled Wallace and invite him to speak again in Prichard at any time. Preaching conciliation rather than proclaiming black power, Cooper had unseated the lackadaisical twelve-year incumbent mayor, Vernon Capps, 62, by applying some of the organizational expertise he had acquired as a campaign aide to Robert Kennedy...
...Stanford conference was full of other tantalizing phenomena that seem to merit thorough investigation. Olga Worrall, director of the New Life Clinic at the Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Baltimore, told how she had cured warts and emotional disorders, and even helped cancer patients by the laying on of hands. Dr. Robert Bradley, a Denver obstetrician who is also president of the American Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine, reported on the use of hypnotherapy, long ago proven effective in relieving pain and easing childbirth, to speed healing from surgical wounds...