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Sometime Actress Diana Barrymore is the latest to try this therapeutic method, following in the footsteps of Singer Lillian Roth, a former alcoholic who found fame, fortune and reform through the catharsis and the cash she gained by writing the bestselling I'll Cry Tomorrow. Diana Barrymore's...
A young Episcopal clergyman from Philadelphia, Pierce showed intense ambition from the time he married wellborn, well-educated Cornelia Peacock in 1831. He took her to Natchez, Miss., where he had been offered a parish, preached there four years, then abruptly resigned his pastorate and announced his intention of becoming...
In actual fact, admits one Macfadden editor, so many changes are made in rewrite that "the confessor would not recognize her own confession." Most editors are less intent on publishing fact than on inserting enough fiction to give their stories the ring of truth; often a single story is patched...
Sob Sisters Under the Skin. Editors and writers share an evangelical faith that confession stories help their readers to solve their own problems. Gushes a top-selling Denver freelancer: "Lots of girls receive their first experience through these stories. I just know that many of them have learned how to...
A related danger: the practice of confession, which turns the church in capitalist countries into a smoothly working espionage organization against the "revolutionary feelings of the people." No one knows how many Russian backsliders are observing Lent, but Pravda deplored the fact that "a considerable number of believers in the...