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...Hoodlum Saint (M.G.M.) will be based on the life of the late Dempster MacMurphy who, feeling that Repentant Thief St. Dismas never got full credit for his virtue (despite Christ's explicit "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise"). acted as a one-man press bureau for the Saint. Father Edward Dowling, close friend of MacMurphy and editor of Queen's Work, is collaborating on the script with Writer Casey Robinson...
...social par with selling patent medicine. Suckers were" lured with door prizes of "imported" china and junk jewelry, free lunches and a circus barker's side show. Joe Day revolutionized the business by 1) investigating and advertising his properties in advance; 2) discovering that a one-man side show by a man who knew his business sold more lots than all the free china he could stack...
...Irene Kelly, Pittsburgh widow, has a son in Italy: Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 23, the "one-man blitz" who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for mowing down some 40 Nazis. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kelly has two sons-Howard, 16, Danny, 11. Last week Son Howard sharpened a pencil, and got in touch with Washington...
...seek Term III ("the Term of Appeasement") Senator Johnson called "the greatest tragedy of American political history." If Term IV materializes, he predicted, it will be known in history as "the Term of Defeat and Frustration." The once great and powerful Democratic Party, he cried, has been reduced by "one-man control" to "hopeless impotency." "It no longer has the inclination or the will to resist those who would rape it. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic. One man will name its candidate for President, its candidate for Vice President, and write its platform, just as was done...
Chaplin's lawyer, slick Jerry Giesler (attorney for Errol Flynn, Alexander Pantages) had a battery of witnesses waiting to testify that Joan Berry was no one-man girl. Judge J. F. T. O'Connor, onetime (1933-38) U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, shooed away this legal red herring as often as it appeared. The prosecutor, Charles H. Carr, argued: "Even if you put a common prostitute on the stand, it would be immaterial as to how many men she might have had affairs with in the past." The only issue was the technical one of Chaplin...