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...nose and palate, puts on a superb demonstration of winetasting, but outsmarts himself. In Skin, a down-and-outer discovers that the portrait tattooed on his back is signed by a famous painter and is worth a fortune, so he places himself in the hands of a grafter who offers him a life of ease, only to lose the very skin off his back. In Mr. Feasey, two earnest cheats bet all their money on the ringer they enter in a greyhound race, but the 17 bookies who take their bets prove to be just as imaginative and crooked...
...stars this time were also more propitious. Madam is a light philosophic fantasy, about equidistant between Saroyan and Thornton Wilder, yet with a flavor and philosophy of its own. It tells how, from a sense of guilt, Mary Doyle, the heiress daughter of "a Tammany grafter who died in Sing Sing," has turned recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists...
...ground that the press furor prevented a fair trial. Reporter Strohmeyer had no intention of letting the case die, kept hammering away. Last week, before the second trial got started, the pressure of the press and of the evidence in the case got to be too much for Grafter Delaney. He unexpectedly pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe and evading income taxes, was sentenced to a year and a day in jail and fined...
...second fact is that all the millions that got into grafter's hands there are peanuts compared to what loss of China is costing and is going to cost us. The third fact is that our aid to Chiang was at best in driblets and disorganized, and that our diplomats there often hindered him. Had our aid to China been as vigorous and proportional to the size of the problems as our aid to Greece, which had similar weaknesses and corruption, and had Chiang still lost, we could then say that the situation was hopeless; as is, we must chalk...
Boyle was not alone; many another reader had written to the newspapers to complain about Detective Dick Tracy's suspiciously high standard of living. Their question: Has the nation's favorite funny-page detective been a grafter all these years? The uproar was so loud that it reached the ears of Tracy's strip father, Cartoonist Chester Gould. He decided to have Pat Patton, the strip's police chief and Tracy's boss, call Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin...