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...adequate in all of them, and in a few (as the widower in Rachel and the Stranger, as the psychopath in The Dark Past) he was better than that. But whenever he took his fight for better parts to the front office, he got the same cold shoulder and the same cold talk: "Face it, kid. You got no sex appeal. What can you do with that face? It looks like a baby's behind." Bill took such talk and came back for more. For the first time in his life he was really fighting-not for Pasadena...
...been favorably inclined toward the gas bill, Case related, but he had decided finally to vote against it. His reason: he had received $2,500 as a "campaign contribution" from a non-South Dakota lawyer, a stranger to Case, who was interested in passage of the gas bill. Case refused to name the lawyer, was vague about other details, but was clear in his implication of vote-buying by gas producers...
Borley's haunts included a tall stranger in a top hat who paid bedside calls on unsuspecting parlor maids, an aged family retainer long since dead, a lurking prowler who went without a hat and without a head as well, a phantom coach that rolled wildly through the front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
...Stranger (Stanley Kramer; United Artists...