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...sober trio of judges was looking for the top dog, the one which could best meet the seven exacting requirements: nose for game, control and steadiness under the gun, ability to mark game, gentleness in "mouthing" the find, speed of retrieving and delivery, style and drive and, most important, "game sense...
Last week, to the intense relief of all concerned, Alexander Garza was no longer a member of the student body. Alexander Garza, it turned out, wasn't Alexander Garza at all, but a 23-year-old narcotics agent who, neatly shaved and garbed in a sober grey business suit, was preparing to tell a grand jury all about a marijuana ring-wholesalers, retailers and pushers-which he had uncovered in two weeks of masquerade...
...Roman Catholic Bishops of the U.S., gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, last week issued a candid and eloquent appraisal of U.S. morals, with emphasis on morality in politics. For a nation shamed by a year of exposure of scandal in public office, the bishops' statement made sober reading. Excerpts...
...human beings. The earth's gravitational field still pulls at a space ship, but as soon as the craft is no longer supported by the air, its occupants feel no gravitation. They become weightless. In the comics they float around merrily, enjoying their new freedom, but in sober fact they will probably behave like stumbling idiots. The human body's sense-organs that control balance and muscular action need gravity to guide them. The crewmen of space ships will need a lot of training before they can make their bewildered bodies behave...
...sober Cagney, having risen to city editor, is drafted by Publishing Tycoon Raymond Massey to reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...