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Citation: "You, sir, have planted talents in a broadcasting booth and reaped them for mankind...
...Shuffle. When General William Booth launched a new era in evangelism 80 years ago with his drum-thumping, quasi-military corps, sin was conspicuous and shocking. A prostitute looking for a respectable job ran the risk of being thrown bodily out of her prospective employer's premises, with the chair on which she had been sitting thrown after her as too contaminated for decent people. Skirts were drawn aside from an unmarried mother, and curbstone drunks would crowd the Army's public meetings desperate for hope and help...
...shuffle of one man toward salvation at a recent London meeting has been the talk of the Army ever since. And the welfare state, with its complex of psychiatric and rehabilitation centers, prompts the downtrodden to turn to government instead of God. Said General Wilfred Kitching, son of Founder Booth's secretary and now head of the Army, in his opening address: "Antiquated methods must be set aside, unproductive activities abandoned, and new strategies examined...
...Spell (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a sensitively observed and breathingly real tragedy of family life. Alma Duval (Shirley Booth) is a nice, warm, middle-aged body, given to sentiment, running to fat, the kind of woman whose world is bounded by porch and kitchen, husband and kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire...
John McMahon is in a position to push the trend. Last week, at 47, he was elected commander in chief of the Volunteers-the fourth in the organization's 62-year history, and the first who is not a member of the Booth family that founded...