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...state of the church in the U.S. than he once was. "Modernism," he says, "is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
...Wages of Sin. With another of the defendants, Enbom even worked out a Trojan-horse plan for Communist seizure of Sweden's Boden fortress, a vast underground installation astride the invasion route from Finland. If war seemed imminent, loyal Communists were to be introduced into the fortifications in sealed railroad cars marked "urgent goods." Enbom reckoned that 200 men would be enough to seize the fortress by surprise...
...longer an earnest Communist and now resigned to his punishment (maxi mum: life imprisonment at hard labor). Spy Enbom told the court: "At first I spied for ideological reasons, later only for the money." The wages of his sin were pitifully small. For ten years of espionage, the Russians had paid...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...
Absolved of their sin...