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...serving without pay, spoke for three hours, making a plea for pity and understanding of his client. He described Gold as the "most selfless man I have ever met in my entire life." He characterized him as a man who had often borrowed money from loan agencies to lend to fellow employees in need. He said that Gold had received no money from Russia, had entered the Soviet web believing that he was helping an ally. After that "he was entrapped...
Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...
...What would Jesus do?" In Topeka, Kans. in 1896, Congregational Minister Charles Sheldon wrote a novel in which, for a year, various members of the congregation of a Midwest church tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts...
Equipped with a rousing new hymn called Follow the Fold, the Salvationists lend a homely charm to proceedings that are otherwise notably secular. Frank Loesser's score, though not unusually accomplished, is wonderfully appropriate: it has the blare of the story, the directness of the dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...
...hours, Mickey was questioned about his income. He finally admitted to a $40,000 home, $48,000 in furnishings, two Cadillacs and an armored car. But he insisted that he was really broke and owed about $300,000 to friends who frequently lend him large sums without collateral, security, or even a note, because "they just happen to like...