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...stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to the U.S. public as a glorious but unsung hero, "a modern Robin Hood...
...Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
Religion & Racism Sir' In alleging that Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers advocate the practice of brother hood as a consequence of having been "brain washed by left-wingers and Communists" [TIME, Sept. 29], Governor Faubus pays the Communists an unnecessary and unmerited compliment. The Communists do seem to know more about brotherhood than Faubus does, so he could, with profit, go to school with them. But the idea of the brotherhood of all men derives rather from certain Old! Testament writers, the Stoic philosophers, or Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
...Neighbor Hood. In Redondo Beach Calif., Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home-the key's under the mat," returned to find that a thief had taken two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine, a piggy bank...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, designed in 1930 by a task force of architects (Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Hood & Fouil-houx) and still expanding, with its 16th building, Harrison & Abramovitz' 47-story TIME & LIFE Building, now going...