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Died. Flaude Cleveland, 67, spinster bank president (Addison State Bank); in Addison, Mich. Daughter of a saloonkeeper, before she was seven she had a paper route. She rose to shoeshine girl in a barbershop, became a bank janitor in 1907, after 22 years wound up as bank president...
...disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget...
...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...
...When she refused to withhold taxes from the wages of her 40 employees, the U.S. Government claimed and got $1,-685.40 from the Westport, Conn, bank account of Industrialist Vivien Kellems. Spinster Kellems promised to sue the bank, organize business men and women into a "mighty crusading force to abolish the withholding...
Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...