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Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...
...crowd and grabbed Freyberg by the tails of his tunic. He turned round and, exercising his privilege as an "Old Boy," gruffly ordered us to "absquatulate," which means nothing worse than "scram." But we were inspired at having touched with our hands a real, live hero and a good Samaritan...
...Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking the bank at a gambling casino...
...only a means to an end. . . . This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within one's own nation, must be the Christian goal...
...Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free...