Word: gideons
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Present-Cum-Hint. 5BX enthusiasts distribute the R.C.A.F. pamphlets with missionary zeal worthy of the Gideon Bible Society. Company executives find them in their in boxes-a kind of corporate present-cum-hint. U.S. Steel ordered some; Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency, bought 2,500 copies; the entire Cleveland Symphony Orchestra is doing the exercises, as is the Swope Ridge Home for the Aged in Kansas City...
...Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats of the largest of themes, the relationship of God and man, but despite bursts of heavenly fire and earthly humor, the playwright's gifts are not really on the same grand scale as his subject...
...eviction was not without its comic aspects. After checking into the Camelback, a palmy desert spa usually inhabited by wealthy oldsters, Columnist Robb was somewhat amused to find her room fitted out not with the usual Gideon Bible but with a collection of anti-Communist pamphlets...
...read the good old Gideon Bible for 30 years." says Mrs. Robb. "But there was no Bible. Only the Gospel by Dr. Fred Schwarz. On balance. I think the King James version is to be preferred...
...Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, makes the relationship between God and man more humorous than awesome; but the theme is tinged with sublimity...