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Girl is the victim of her own publicity. In this case she is a Chicago model unburdening herself in a Pullman to a kindly stranger who sounds just like Author Farrell...
...lived," the kindly stranger reflected, "on her illusions of her own charm. If she sat up in such discomfort, she was sitting the way a girl should sit ... If she made her face over into a mask, she was beautiful. If she wore a girdle which pinched in her waist . . . she had a beautiful figure. And after . . . modeling and posing in shows and for national magazine ads, after dates, after her night or two a week with her lover, she would go to bed and there lie in terror of something unreal and unseen, and she would...
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO Radio) tells an occasionally moving love story of two cripples, one moral, the other physical. Gambler Joseph Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen...
...Family. In Toronto, William Bray, arrested for beating up a total stranger, explained to police that he got the wrong address: "I was looking for one of my wife's relatives...
There had never been any mysterious stranger and none of the other legends about the slogan were true. Actually, the slogan had been kicking around the company almost since it was founded. "How could we miss it?" asked Stevens. "The phrase is even in the dictionary and at least 80 songs have been written with that title." The slogan was used on place cards called "Happy-Go-Luckies" in the early 1930s and on a few posters in 1937. But American did not plug it hard, for a reason baffling to non-admen: American simply did not think...