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...tied Joe Culmone for the national title with 388. Though he had ridden many good horses, Willie never got a great one until 1954, when he won the mount on Rex Ellsworth's Swaps. This year he is contracted for two of the best: the colt Crimson Satan and the filly Cicada, each of whom was the two-year-old champion...
...Satan Never Sleeps (20th Century-Fox). God, in Director Leo McCarey's movies, is always good-especially for business. McCarey's most famous religious pictures (Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's) were shrewdly aimed to please the millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers, and they managed to charm plenty of Protestants too. In this picture, after a run of unsuccessful shows, McCarey has once more called upon religion to perform a commercial miracle; but this time he appears to have used the Lord's name in vain. For all its superficial smirk of piety...
...cleverest wile of Satan is to convince us that he does not exist...
...Over the centuries, millions of tiny Anglicans preparing for Confirmation have lisped and stammered out the awesome answer that begins: "I would renounce the Devil and all his works." A year ago, in a proposed revision of the catechism, the Anglican Archbishops' Commission struck out all mention of Satan. Young believers, the draft suggested, should merely "renounce all that is wrong and fight against evil...
Dropping the Devil was part of the archbishops' effort to keep up with the times. Christ mentioned "the prince of demons,'' and all the great Christian theologians have considered Satan the personification of evil. But now, even some devout Christians think of the Devil as a figure of superstition, or a comic literary fancy. In a 1957 Gallup poll of Britons 20 years old or more, 78% said that they believed in God, while only 34% believed in Satan...