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...Reconsider Your Policy." "Had I fought them with personal lust or for the gain of a few men, it would be I-a monstrous criminal whom heaven should punish. But if they were rebels misguided by you, then you are the murderer. In the silence of the night, think upon it . . . reconsider your policy. . . . What people hate most is war. What they need most is peace . . . you say you will struggle on for ten years more of fighting and disturbance. What would then be left for people...
...plant being run from a skyscraper 3,000 miles away. So V.E. simply had one of his small planemaking subsidiaries, Vultee Aircraft Inc., buy Consolidated. (One planemaker described Vultee's designs on Consolidated as "like a flea going up an elephant's leg with lust in its eye.") Under V.E., the Army & Navy had no complaint about the way Consolidated...
...Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before, now is the industry's most fashionable musical device...
Divorced. James M. Cain, 54, author, expert in themes of violence and lust (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade, Double Indemnity); by wife No. 3, Aileen Pringle Cain, 45, silent-film siren; after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...little further. Another section of the same statute provided identical punishment (a year in jail, $1,000 fine) for owning, lending, selling, giving away or showing any newspaper "largely made up of criminal news, police reports, accounts of criminal deeds or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." A literal prosecutor, with a sly liking for gamey books, might turn that one against some newspapers...