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...nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does not so obviously develop under the eye of God and the sinners do not even know that they...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall in a wonderful peek at Mayfair manners and amorals...
Belgium. Highlights of the four-day trip: a narrow escape from being clobbered by a Fiat on the slippery cobblestones of Bruges, a state dinner with scholarly young (28) King Baudouin at the Royal Hunting Lodge, a fast-paced peek at the Brussels Fair, where she peered gingerly through fixed wall binoculars at the stage of the British Pavilion's theater...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and wife Kay Kendall in a wonderfully lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals...
...surreptitiously showing off pictures of the '59s. Most of them have cleaner lines, less chrome. Trusted customers and fleet buyers even were allowed to snatch glimpses of the cars. In Chicago one major Chrysler Corp. dealer looked the other way while visitors tiptoed into the rear showrooms to peek at the new models. Almost all dealers were well ahead of last year in specific orders, figured that the growing recovery in the economy will keep sales improving. Dealers also look for a sales boost from the new federal law that requires factory-suggested list prices to be posted...