Word: al
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter what the critics say about "A Touch," they had better keep their pencils sharpened. Ivy plans to keep on making movies come what may, as long as the money lasts. Hollywood, beware-and the devil take J. Arthur Rank et al...
What are these "psychological laws of human behavior" [TIME, April 11 et seq.] upon which Professor Stace et al. claim morality can be based? Why cannot these laws be altered by the individual to suit himself, if they themselves are not grounded in a deeper reality? If charity has no reality except as a pragmatic mode of behavior, an individual could logically devise his own morality when his good appears to conflict with society's good. It then becomes a matter of who has the best opportunity and the most power...
When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies -exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity...
...Al Robbins, a 28-year-old stationery salesman and free-lance photographer, sometimes picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest...
Next day, Al Robbins' best shot of the dying boy (see cut) made Page One of the Mirror. (Another Robbins picture of the same scene was on Page 20 of the Journal-American). Bob Wendlinger's byline was on the Mirror cut, but Robbins had the satisfaction of having taken a memorable picture, poignant with the tragedy that lurks on a city's streets...