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...linguist. He paraphrases the word "Gospel" (good news) as "You'd be surprised!" Dr. Bailey contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
With both surgery and music out of his reach, he got jobs in public-health departments, began his intensive collection of experience. In Seattle and San Francisco, he helped many prostitutes who wanted to go home and resume respectability. Samaritan Taylor had a friendly department-store owner write each girl's family that she had been employed in his store, was ill, needed rest. Families sent fares, brought their wayward daughters home, learned no distasteful truth...
...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...
...Bolles played the Good Samaritan, bringing his launch alongside the Rabbitt shell to pick Whitnack out of the water by the scruff of his neck and drop him back dripping into the bow seat...
Died. Jean Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went...