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...Against Sin. In Oklahoma City, Political Aspirant George V. Fried announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate and his platform: "If it's right...
...were a dresser drawer, for bits of plot. The search yields a rather weird assortment: an attractive cigar-counter girl who goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only to learn that it belongs to the Government in back taxes...
...these days of scientific diets and innoculations against all but sin and the common cold, movie gangsters are bigger than ever. With height, breadth of shoulder, circumference of bicept and cragginess of feature, the toughs are of heroic proportions. But two re-releases now in town make the whole crew, from Charles McBraw to Scott Brady, look like limp souffles...
Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
...Devil's Smokescreen. "Dancing in itself is no sin. If dancing were a sin, every bishop in every see in the world would forbid it ... But the prohibition of dancing can cause those very sins we try to avoid." The cardinal, who has forbidden all dancing in his diocese, even in private homes, frowned...