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...next forty-five minutes the evangelist roared his way through a series of Bible quotations that bore little or no relation to each other. Then he called for converts to step forward. Nobody moved. Owen coaxed, pleaded, wheedled. He prayed, "Jesus, isn't there a paycheck in the audience?" He pointed to various people and berated them for their lack of faith. Deprived of converts, he demanded fifty dollar checks and threatened those who would not give with "sleepless nights." Finally he lost his temper and shouted, "all right, you don't have to stay...
Second Best. On its face the official statement scarcely bore out St. Laurent's enthusiasm. Still missing was the formal presidential agreement which Canada needs before she can alter the levels of U.S.-Canadian boundary waters. But the communique did contain one meaningful commitment: "The President would support the Canadian action as second best if an early commencement of the joint development does not prove possible...
...Broadway, playwrights ought to. Rushing the season, all sorts of wildly sanguine early birds fly by night only to crash by morning. This year September was particularly shuddersome, and its last two shows passed into history even before the calendar did. Out West of Eighth was a strapping bore about cowboys in Manhattan; Twilight Walk, concerned with a sex murderer, was a sad mismating of the tabloids and Freud. As of Oct. 1, there were no newcomers among Broadway's Best Bets...
...only sign of Sylvie was a letter to the caretaker of her children. "Terrible things are going to happen to me," it said. "Have pity." The letter was dated in Paris, bore a return address near Strasbourg and a postmark near Marseille...
...refused, they beat him into unconsciousness. Alarmed, he moved back to New Jersey six weeks ago-alone and so secretly that the neighbors had no inkling of his arrival. How did Smole know the stories were true? When he had seen Adamic in New York, the author still bore an unhealed wound from the encounter...