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...sainthood. At their first climax young Father Donnisan contends with Satan face to face and conquers him; at their second, the same night, he meets the young girl, so shatters her that she retreats pell-mell to Satan, cuts her throat. The priest is locked up as a madman. Later he is given an obscure parish...
...shouting about Frenchman Simenon in U. S. mystery circles is well justified by these two novelettes. Liberty Bar finds Inspector Maigret at Antibes, in the curious business of Madame Jaja, Sylvie the tart and dead Mr. Brown. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret jumps off the careening Paris-Bordeaux express, is promptly shot. Convalescing in a provincial town, he mixes into the local murders and scandals, which are something for a town that size. Refreshing stories, very French...
...seven years Franklin Roosevelt has poured out farm benefits, strengthened labor's bargaining position, piled new tax burdens on the rich. His reward: to the lower-third of the U. S. he is a savior; to economic royalists "that madman in the White House-" This week Commerce Department economists, having broken down national income payments by years, 1929-39, found that, despite marked shifts during depression-bottom years, the basic national-income pattern in 1939 was virtually the same...
...after all are man-made and depend upon us for existence. He saw things as they were, alone, and then proceeded to reapply these principles of order to them on his canvases. And this entire process went on very naturally within him as he painted; if he was a madman he was a very keen-sighted and philosophic madman. Such a theory about Van Gogh may not be acceptable but it is simply offered as a suggestion to keep in mind while viewing his paintings...
...People who last fall were denouncing "that madman in the White House who is trying to get us into war" were now impatient with merely feeding & clothing the Finns. "Bullets, not butter," was their...