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The "morally simpleminded" standards of the legion, Kerr continues, would automatically ban the filming of much of Nobel Prizewinner François Mauriac's work, or that of English Novelist Graham Greene, both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Catholics & the Movies | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Sir: ... As I read the Oct. 20 issue of TIME. I found it harder ... to swallow the lump in my throat ... I never thought I would live to see the day in America when the people's votes would be dictated by questionable labor leaders and a politician of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

The Raiders (Universal-International). According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte. Backed up by a group of angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out West | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

(See Cover) I know of nobody who has found a way to prevent some people from being . . . dishonest . . . Last year there were something like 600 defalcations and embezzlements in the banks of this country. One out of every 300 bank officers was found to be crooked. And the record of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Pulled a Thread | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

He scoffed at corruption as a take issue. "We always have scandals and rascals, not in government alone, but also in business. Newspapers have said a lot about crooked internal revenue collectors, but little about dishonest bank clerks, it is a perennial problem in any administration."

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Holcombe Undecided on Candidates; Declares Able Leadership Main Issue | 10/9/1952 | See Source »

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