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...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
...Mexico City: "The weather is fine and the scenery wonderful." Promptly the Woolworth heiress flew to the border, set off Mexico Citywards in an air-conditioned limousine with a friend, a chauffeur, a maid, a bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired Evangelist A'imee Semple McPherson, thrice-married, twice-divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year...
Stocky, slit-eyed, tweedy Milo Perkins is a rare New Deal exhibit: a hard-driving businessman who left a thriving business to take a modest job in a Government bureau. He did it because he is an evangelist at heart. Unlike many a cynical Government worker, Milo Perkins really believes in the New Deal credo that "nobody should go hungry...
...Evangelist Sam Morris, the "Voice of Temperance," radio prohibitionist. His strongest card: a letter written by Morris Sheppard before his death, praising Sam Morris' fight against the Demon...
...American woman evangelist who stayed at her post when the Japanese occupied that region sheltered several hundred Chinese women in the mission compound. The sex-hungry Japanese told her to turn the women over "for protection against bandits." She refused and kept the soldiers out of the compound, even though she herself was beaten and stripped. When the Japanese retired after a month's occupation, she was the first to follow them on the retreat. She tucked a basket of medical supplies under her arm and went up into the hill villages, dressing wounds at every place she stopped...