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...Love Rides the Rails" is basically a melodrama and its plot somewhat resembles that of "The Golden Fleecer." The action centers around two swindlers who come to a small town and try to extract some railroad rights from a widow and her daughter. The two women fight back, and with the aid of the daughter's boy friend, are eventually successful in ridding the town of the crooks...
...fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey, and they spend too much time nuzzling each other. It seems that the shy-type comic cannot survive on TV without...
...face in Communist prison camps. While the code directs men to resist enemy interrogation to "the utmost of their ability," the Defense Advisory Committee report behind the code informs GIs and all potential enemies that prisoners will not be prosecuted if they yield to torture. Captors know they can extract signed confessions--but only by applying irresistable pressure...
...American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens to be asked to suffer in the erroneous belief that their sacrifices will prevent Communists from wining converts...
...Extract from: "Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency of the united States Senate, 84th Congress: on the Nomination of Andrew D. Orrick to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission...