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...picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...Reuben Archer Torrey Jr. was born 67 years ago, son of a preacher who was head of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, young Presbyterian Torrey asked to be sent out to Korea, but the Korea quota was full and he drew China instead. With his bride of four months, he arrived there in 1913, for the next 28 years worked out of the Presbyterian mission in Tsinan. Shantung Province. After World War II he served as a civilian liaison man between the U.S. forces and Chiang Kai-shek's army...
...contrasted 19th century American "innocence" with Old World decadence and guile. Assured, high-mettled Isabel Archer wants ardently to live without knowing too much about life. She rejects the safe and familiar, only to marry a corruptly overcultivated expatriate who wants only her money. The awakening is hideous; but having made her bed of spikes, Isabel sentences herself...
...that way with Lew Archer, quick-thinking, fast-moving hero of John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled...
Born. To Audie Murphy, 29, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Duel at Silver Creek), and his second wife, Pamela Archer Murphy, 31: their second child, second son; in Hollywood. Name: James Shannon. Weight...