Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that tired radio perennial, the evening mystery show. Based on a character created by Whodunit Writer Craig Rice, Malone deals with a Chicago criminal lawyer whose avowed hobby is "collecting cliches." Malone has other off-beat mannerisms: he avoids fights, employs a masseur, and dislikes guns because "they remind me of weddings." Currently unsponsored, Malone had some fast-paced dialogue by Scripter Eugene Wang, is packed with such novelties as an effeminate gunman, a strait-laced gambler fretting about his daughter's morals, a policeman who was on the right track from the start...
...British, the Festival is a sign that their country is not flat on its back. It is supposed to be a national autobiography to remind Englishmen of all the good things they have done in science, arts, letters, industry, and commerce, and what good things they are likely to do in the future...
...faith, human compassion, clerical exploitation, and submissive ignorance." He is not likely to convince anybody not already convinced. His claim that the church, in its long history, has often stood with undemocratic factions throughout the world is something too well documented for Catholics to deny. But Catholics can also remind Author Blanshard that Catholicism is to them a religion and not a political system; in all good conscience, they can be as good democrats as he is. Above all, in the embattled world of 1951, Blanshard's book will strike many Americans as an irrelevance...
...well aware that opinions have been expressed with great frequency and violence that the defense of Europe by ground forces is impossible . . . As to the latter (military considerations) I should like to remind you . . . that Dr. Vannevar Bush, who has considerable knowledge of modern weapons, believes that the technological advances of recent years enormously favor the defense of land positions against mechanized and armored troops...
...Yankees' Gil McDougald, 22, an infielder up from Beaumont, Texas, whose batting average (.336) and willowy grace remind some experts of the great Pie Traynor; and Righthander Tom Morgan, 20, a big, stolid kid who won 17 games for Binghamton, N.Y. (Class A) last season. With remarkable rookie control (two walks), Morgan has pitched 13 consecutive scoreless innings for the Yankees in spring training games...