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...being a successful U.S. businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon. ... I see no hypocrisy in concern for the general good coupled with an interest in private advancement...
...York furlough. The catch: he signs over to them the proceeds of his literary future. Later Mulvehill wangles good safe desk jobs for himself and Hargrove. But as their unit embarks for war, their sense of war's comradeship gets the better of them, and they plead their way back into the artillery...
...York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin to railroad Joan out of town, to influence her to plead guilty under a vagrancy charge of which she was innocent, to deprive her of her Constitutional rights.* If guilty on all counts, 54-year-old Chaplin could be fined $26,000, spend 23 years in federal prison. But to deport British Subject Chaplin from the U.S., two proved offenses against the Mann...
...Elder Statesman spoke-and the momentary silence that followed his words showed a shamefaced realization that at his own moral level there was no reply. Secretary of War Stimson, whose years have carried him beyond party and personal ambition, appeared last week before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to plead for the National Service Act. His appeal was directed straight to the conscience of every American. He said...
Winged Victory is more a paean to youth than a picture of war. Incorrigibly boyish in tone, it might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained...