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...Memphis last week California Evangelist Dr. Jack Shuler threw the book at Hollywood ("the best friend the brothel has"). Bible-based movies, he shouted, are "counterfeit Christianity." and movie-colony Christians like Jane Russell have acquired "the dubious ability of juggling a Bible in one hand and a cocktail glass in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Movie Morality | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...quietest division of American Express is its unarmed detective force. Since the company replaces millions of lost or stolen checks each year, its 100-man detective bureau has its hands full fighting forgers, pickpockets and counterfeiters, has quietly sent dozens of them to jail. In 1937, after the Government failed to jail Capone Henchman Bugs Moran, American Express nailed him for passing counterfeit traveler's checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: TRAVEL | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite utter defeat in love and finance, he just laughs an ironic laugh, and in doing so achieves the maturity...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Five Fingers | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...given a numbered card--to take a typewriter out of the building he would have to surrender the card. In a breath, no one would get a card without a typewriter, and no one could leave with a typewriter without handing in a card. Unless someone can counterfeit these cards at a local printer, there would be no fear of lifted typewriters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tired Typists | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

...enough, but it was not all. French authorities rigged the Arab elections in favor of stooges whom the Arabs call beni oui ouis (yes, yes men). Mendes was more candid about this than any top French politician had ever been before. "We discredited democratic procedures. The ballot is counterfeit. The ballot boxes are stuffed. The winners are picked by the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Wand & the Word | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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