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...than in neighboring Georgia and Alabama. Shortly after the National Committee selected him. Collins learned that Florida Gubernatorial Hopeful Doyle E. Carlton Jr., the candidate he had openly endorsed in the Democratic primary, had lost resoundingly. "I know he won't lie; I know he won't steal." Collins assured the voters in a TV speech, but they nevertheless showed a strong preference for Harvard-educated Lawyer Farris Bryant, a somewhat more outspoken segregationist than Carlton...
Bias Against Cats. For 2½ hours, the dictator of all the Russias alternately ranted and wheedled, sought to persuade and intimidate, told rambling anecdotes. As for American "aggressors," he said, they should be treated the way Russian peasants treat cats that steal cream or break into pigeon lofts. When he was young, cried Nikita, "we would catch such a cat by the tail and bang its head against the wall, and that was the only way it could be taught some sense...
...ground, But thief steal am for night, an' ant eat some too. One of them farmers, him got plenty sense, 'E go for Barclays Bank an' they keep him money well...
...action to occupy the eye; the girls have a close shave every few minutes. Kicked out of town by the Germans, who don't like to be reminded by their presence of the partisans' power, the fallen women take to the woods, filch food from farmhouses, steal boots and guns from dead Germans, shoot two Home Guards who try to rape them, ambush a Wehrmacht reprisal party, and finally join the same band of partisans that had punished them. Happy ending? Not with 70 minutes still to go. "I must warn you,'' Heflin thunders...
Kidnapped (Walt Disney; Buena Vista). Robert Louis Stevenson's casual classic was written, he confessed, with "no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid." Walt Disney's movie version may persuade the young gentlemen that Latin homework is a comparative pleasure...