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...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' creation she owns...
...morning Times and evening Star (combined circ. 725,000) would continue to blanket Kansas and western Missouri, as the biggest paper in both states. "The boss of the Star," a businessman-politician reflected last week, "is the most important man in Kansas at any given moment-more important than Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Clyde Reed, all the congressmen and the Governor all wrapped up together. The State of Kansas is exactly what the Star wants it to be; it won't change until the Star decides it's time." The Star lived in the same city...
Ingrown Heirs. As a self-sustaining satrapy, the Star grows its own bosses. Roy Roberts began as a carrier boy in Lawrence, was a campus correspondent at the University of Kansas (he was there with Alf Landon). He covered first state, then nation politics, got his news by getting friendly with the men who made it. "I never cared much for press conferences," says Roberts. "I always liked to get my stuff out the back door...
...Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon dropped into the White'House for a chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress...