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...little farther south, in Los Angeles, Topic A was Governor Warren's entry into the Wisconsin primary race. In Charleston, S.C., people were indignant about judges who were resigning in order to be renamed to their posts at higher pay, while Indianapolis was swept up in the Hoosier State's annual excitement over the high-school basketball tournament...
After sticking up a New Orleans gambling den for $100,000, Joan finds that everything is going black. She heads for the eye clinic of a Hoosier Dr. Kildare (Dennis Morgan). While he is simultaneously stitching together Joan's optical nerves and surrendering his heart, her gun pals are killing cops, slugging each other and fretting about what Joan's up to. Gangster Brian, who seems to regard her with a proprietary eye, decides to go gunning for Surgeon Morgan. He comes to his destined end by crashing through the glass canopy of an operating room after being...
...Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so much . . ." He turns with a warmer eye to the lumbering Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, with his industrial America, his farm girls looking for jobs and fun in the big city, his drummers spreading the gospel of the fast buck. For all his muddled clumsiness, Dreiser was the spiritual father of almost every important U.S. writer since. He persuaded a generation of them that...
Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, a native Hoosier himself, promptly turned off the federal faucet which was pouring $20 million a year into Indiana for assistance. A federal law passed in 1939, he pointed out, made relief rolls secret. Chief reason for the law: the records had been used in several states, notably Ohio, to compile political mailing lists...
Cluttered Closets. Steele is an old hand at shaking skeletons from the Government's cluttered closets. The 37-year-old Hoosier had i) started the five-percenters investigation, 2) broken the story of the huge profits on surplus-ship sales (TIME, April 9), 3) revealed how ex-Democratic Chairman William Boyle had sold his profitable law practice, including cases concerning Government agencies...