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...occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable sin, it is the only blight on a good evening's entertainment...
...tenth straight broadcast from a training camp (location censored). Benny has found that incalculable whoops and whistles upset his expertly worried lines. No ad-libber, he has to stick to his painfully prepared script, feels that a lot of mugging thrown in for a visual audience is a sin against his radio listeners...
Elderly (119 years) but lively Zion's Herald, No. 2 Methodist weekly, waxed hot last week over racial discrimination in the Methodist Church. "Our sin against the Negro lies as a log across the path of Methodist progress," editorialized the Herald. "In these days of war, with discrimination against the Negro becoming a nationwide scandal, we are tongue-tied. . . . What is the church going to do about real brotherhood...
These sharp etchings of Kings & Desperate Men are set off by broader and blander portrayals of the aristocrats; country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward...
...towns. "Jefferson was right when he said that cities were evil [population of Sallisaw: 1,500]." But the two things that made Old McDonald maddest were the way Oklahoma farmers refused to plant anything but cotton, and the way they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher...