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...poll pointed out that: 1) typical cinemaddicts-whose opinions are most valuable-are the least likely to bother writing them on a ballot; 2) producers think they already possess most of the information the poll is intended to disclose. Said Motion Picture Herald: "The industry hardly needs to confess obtuseness by any such gesture...
Meanwhile Detective Lavan has discovered incriminating evidence against Ferriter, gives him a grilling. Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...
...have tried to make out what stand the CRIMSON has taken on the Sino-Japanese situation, without, I must confess, any great degree of success. First you pooh-poohed the whole affair as nothing more than a far-Eastern circus and condescendingly advised everybody not to take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
...request for federal loans to city governments opens up an even larger problem. The self-sufficiency of local governments is one of the most valuable of American traditions. To accept extraordinary assistance from the federal government, without the most pressing need, would be to confess that municipal democratic government is incompetent. The charge made by Lord Bryce to that effect years ago, and often repeated, would be proved by the cities themselves...
...night, and it further emphasized the fact that such shows cannot longer interest a leg-weary world." Twenty years ago and the public was leg weary. I am just wondering if the public hasn't finally become hip, rib, back and altogether sex weary by this time. I confess I am against the ropes. JASPER C. HUTTO Charlotte...