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...Moth, Hollywood's hoary old sensation-monger James M. Cain tells the story of a nice boy-nice, that is, by comparison with other guys he has written about. Mr. Cain's new hero has a sense of beauty and even a sense of guilt. His missteps, including fraud, adultery, a few burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that...
...monger," said the former Vice-President and critic of President Truman's foreign policy, "but it is important for Russia to know there is a point beyond which she shouldn't go without awakening resistance. I'm confident our Navy would fight if she got into Turkey because our Navy is determined to get Saudi-Arabian oil. But that oil should be made available to all countries...
...owners had refused to renew the Danes' 99-year lease on their vast London house. Huge, white-haired old "Rolls" Dane - General Sir Roland Iron monger Dane, K.C.B., D.S.O.- cried, "I don't want the family to go out of the house." Actually, the family had been out of the house for years. But in the memory of Rolls, the only one left, they were still there. In a series of flashbacks, the past becomes the present and the family lives again...
...opinions be guided by this common interest. But this should not blind us to the fact that three short months ago we were still in the throes of a war debate in which it was common to refer to your opponent as a traitor, a Nazi, or a war-monger...
...matter which of its two factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...