Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the dynamite exploded-in the face of the man who lit the fuse. After sifting evidence for five weeks, the committee found only two leaking offenders. One had been paid ?5 a week by Editor Guy Schofield of Lord Rothermere's Evening News; Schofield refused to tell the name. The other was garrulous Garry Allighan himself. He had admitted getting ?30 a week for passing along confidential information to the "enterprising" Evening Standard...
...criminal mind. He never met a fingerman in his life, never reads mystery stories, spends his few off hours quietly at home with his wife, radio-&-cinemactress Pert Kelton, and their two children. "I figure I just have a talent for murder," he says. "Whenever I gotta mess a guy. up on the air, I just think of some s.o.b. that insulted me the other day, and then I grind my teeth and do what the script says just as if I was doing it to the guy who insulted me. Afterwards I really feel relieved. Gripes...
...Burkhart wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...
More Scholarship? Speaking for the liberalizers, the Churchman's Editor Guy Emery Shipler joined the deeper issue-between those Episcopalians who emphasize their individual, Protestant conscience and those who believe, as Bishop Manning and the Anglo-Catholics do, in the superior wisdom and authority of "the holy Catholic Church." Editorialized Dr. Shipler...