Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism...
Critic John Mason Brown recently called comic books "the marijuana of the nursery." Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ranked them among the chief "contributing causes of juvenile delinquency." Disgusted by the sex, violence and crime they were peddling, druggists in South Bend refused last week to sell comic books in their stores...
...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...
With his prosperity (he owns a 640,000-acre ranch in Arizona, supports 100 model farms from Maine to Wisconsin), Charlie Ward has also won prominence. He is a 32nd-Degree Mason. For his gifts to churches and charities, he has been commended by Pope Pius XII. He also remembers ex-convicts, gives a chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants...
Snorted Duff: "Dewey turns up in this state with the vigorous support of the people who have opposed every progressive step the Republican Party has taken. I assume that since Dewey says publicly he is ... for these programs, he or his agents must be telling Mason Owlett something else. I am driven to the conclusion that Dewey will promise anybody anything if it will make him President of the U.S. Dewey looks like a man without principle...