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Saum said that his committee would choose 20 volunteers. Mr. Neil Sullivan, a youth worker at Columbia Point, would then pick ten from among these. "This is not for do-gooders," Sullivan said. "We don't want world-savers and sob-sisters. If you show a kid you care for him, he will care for himself...
...gets jammed up with the rules," he once wrote, "there are always a lot of folks ready to turn on the brine for him. But when some bezark that no one ever heard of gets found out, they rush him off to the sneezer or jail, with never a sob gulped out in his behalf." Yet when two bezarks awaited execution in Massachusetts in 1927, Runyon turned in a story so unsentimental that his editors refused to run it: "They're frying Sacco and Vanzetti in the morning," ran the lead...
...trial judge, Weinman's 86-page decision termed the trial a "mockery of justice." The "inflammatory and prejudicial reporting" of all three Cleveland newspapers-the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland News (since purchased by the Press)-continually implied that Sheppard was guilty; one "cheap sob-sister editorial" in the Press, said the judge, "literally screamed" for his conviction. The papers kept running pictures of Trial Judge Edward Blythin (who was up for reelection) and gave him pointed advice on how to conduct the trial. Blythin, wrote Weinman, should have ordered a change of venue; instead...
Connie Abramson, who plays Maurya, is too harsh throughout, screaming lines she should properly mutter or let fall without ado. 'Anne Bernstein, as Nora, is too tragic for a 14-year old girl, and she seems inclined to sob or sigh when she feels like it rather than in response anyone else's lines. David Handlin does not appear to know how he should act, but he has the grace to underplay, and his Bartley comes out natural, if a little weak...
...through mud and marsh until they drop at last onto a bed of shrubbery. As a group of children go singsonging along the road nearby, both lie gasping, indistinguishable one from the other. Which is which? Kurosawa tenderly draws the line between good and evil: the killer begins to sob...