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...depth and background of the characters' lives has been sacrificed in favor of the more melodramatic happenings of the book. There is no denying, however, that some of the political characterizations, the mob scenes, the insolent brutality of armed ruffians, the gripping terror but persistent courage of the Jessup family become realities in the mind of the spectator...
Tuckered out last week was Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson, Founder, Bishop and General Overseer of ''The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson," whose excitable communicants are known to outsiders as ''holy rollers." In Bishop Tomlinson's huge wooden tabernacle at Cleveland, a small East Tennessee town 40 miles southeast of Fundamentalist Dayton, little Founder Tomlinson, 71, brought to a close the liveliest revival meeting in a generation of distributing tracts and organizing holy roller camp meetings among the hillbillies of the Great Smoky Mountains. Some 15,000 of his 100,000 disciples were in Cleveland...
Soon as Mr. Morgan was at home, Dr. Denny, who accompanied him from Boston, turned him over to his personal physician, Dr. Everett Colgate Jessup. They, the Morgan family and the 17 Morgan Partners feared false rumors. Junius Spencer Morgan acknowledged the report of his father's heart attack. But, declared he: "Reports of his being paralyzed are entirely erroneous. He has suffered a slight upset and doctors have prescribed a rest. The worst is over. He is rapidly getting better. ... I believe he will go abroad. He usually does so at this time of year anyway...
What had caused the trouble in Mr. Morgan's case was Drs. Denny and Jessup's problem. With his patient secluded and at ease in his own home, Dr. Denny cheerily declared: "Mr. Morgan is improving. He should be all right in about two or three weeks...
Although he has not disclosed the starting lineup against B. U., Samborski has named ten possible starters who will probably constitute the first and second teams. As guards he lists MacLeod, Lupien, Heckel, and Jessup. Centers Ruml and Horrigan. Forwards--Dobbyn, Rabenold, Grondahi, and Howell...