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Under that heading Editor Robert Walker told about a group of movie folk who had become "born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ." Among Christian Life's galaxy of "sincere and effective soul-winners": Stars Jane (The Outlaw) Russell and Roy Rogers, Starlet Colleen Townsend. Colleen, said the article, had underscored her conversion by leaving the "secular movie industry," which has "been one of Satan's most effective weapons for corrupting the morals and misleading the youth of the world." None of the others, however, had yet heard a similar call...
...Outlaw Peck has the fastest draw in the West and a dozen killings to prove it; but at 35 he is worn, broke and hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers...
...Torres Bodet, manana means today." Bodet had a pet project of his own-nothing more nor less than peace. He favored a Yugoslav suggestion for an international intellectual congress for peace, a Belgian proposal to form a committee to study the effects of new weapons, a Czech plan to outlaw atomic weapons. When the conference rejected these projects, Bodet got sore. Cried Bodet: "I ask the conference to place on the agenda the selection of my successor...
...apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...