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...second anniversary of her third-story leap to freedom, onetime Soviet Schoolteacher Oksana Kasenkina announced that she was writing a novel, to be called The Red Devil. "Of course, the Red Devil is Stalin. Who else...
...Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that's simply all the devil has to do in hell, too, as I understand...
...Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway-New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York...
...readers of the monthly Christian Life are no friends of show business. Drinking, smoking, dancing, card-playing and movies they consider the Devil's traps. Last week the July issue of their aggressively fundamentalist magazine brought them up short with an article called "The Truth about Hollywood...
Christian Life's readers lost no time in letting Editor Walker know where the Devil had trapped him. Wrote the Rev. Roy I. Bohanan of New London, Conn.: "Print more . . . Let's have a story on the Bartenders' Christian Fellowship, or the revelation of a" Prostitutes' Christian Association . . . but not into Christian homes." Sighed Kenneth D. Barney of Scott City, Kans.: "The wishy-washy, lukewarm professed believers who insist movies are not wrong for Christians will now have a new argument." Henry Pucek of St. Louis, Mo. pointed to a recent magazine picture of Jane Russell...