Word: martyrizing
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...Serious Martyr. Silliphant became terribly serious about television scripts only ten years ago. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California, he joined 20th Century-Fox and had risen to the post of Eastern publicity manager before he decided that "it was time either to write or be unhappy for the rest of my life." He batted out a short story that the fiction editor of Collier's deemed "the most horrible story she'd ever received." Silliphant passed it on to Screen Directors' Playhouse and promptly got an enthusiastic acceptance and a check...
...June 26 the church celebrated the feast of the martyr brothers Sts. John and Paul, secretly put to death by order of Julian the Apostate. Their glorious end became public, tradition says, "through the many wonders wrought at their tomb." It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ...
...that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly new species of leadership for Ireland...
Later, however, one woman does confess and all the truth comes out. Muscari is hailed as a great martyr "who taught us all to tell the truth...
Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...