Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still looking more like a Champion than a genius, plays the musician, Rick Martin. For the behind-the-scenes trumpet they could have picked Bobby Hackett, the last fine musician of the Bix school. They could have selected any one of a number of good young California trumpeters who worship Beiderbecke's records. So they chose Harry James. This only adds to the public illusion that jazz was discovered in New Orleans by Larry Parks, that it was brought up to Chicago on the riverboats by Arturo de Cordoya, and that every great jazz trumpeter must have sounded like James...
Rick Martin is an orphan, brought up by his sister in Los Angeles. At an early age he meets and grows to worship a Negro trumpeter, Art Hazard (a "preaching" role, played uncomfortably by Juano Henandez), and takes lessons from him. It soon becomes apparent that the trumpet is the only thing Rick can rely upon completely...
...school teachers crowded last week through the pillared facade of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Temple and jammed its high-domed auditorium. Three-quarters of them were women, but there were also some Presbyterian elders and Methodist deacons. Most of them had never been in a Jewish place of worship before. This was the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers...
...considered opinion Americans hadn't been fighting for the Four Freedoms at all; at any rate, they shouldn't have been if they were. Freedom of speech and worship might be all right, but the other two didn't deserve a three-minute round with a waltzing mouse...
Armor of Love. Author Warner's little allegory is generally clear enough. The Governor, so sure that the "masses" want someone to worship and not to be told "that it is their duty to think," evilly overreaches himself. But poky liberalism gets caught in the middle, as usual, and goes down, leaving the opportunist Minister for Public Instruction in doubtful control as civil war begins. Only the Governor's passively Christlike brother, a concentration-camp veteran, and his simple peasant wife are left free to face the evil with an armament of unselfish love...