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...last week, goodhearted, excitable Charles Tobey, one of the Senate's most florid orators and unpredictable Republican mavericks, had become almost a stranger to the Senate chamber. He had spent a good part of the summer traveling up & down New Hampshire, spouting Latin quotations, leaning on the Good Book, explaining and apologizing to people who had been voting for him for decades. Apparently he had come to regard his independent-liberal reputation as something of a campaign liability. Sure he had fought for labor's rights, said Tobey, but Herbert Hoover was "my dear friend." Furthermore, Wisconsin...
Samaritan. In Evanston, ILL, Jay Sandercock put a penny in an expired parking meter to save a stranger from a ticket, was arrested for tampering with the meter, learned that the car had already been ticketed...
Julius Rosenberg and his wife were listening to the Lone Ranger with their two young sons when a stranger rapped on the door of their battered and drab apartment near the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Twelve men filed in from the small hallway and announced that they were from the FBI. They arrested 32-year-old Julius Rosenberg...
That night, after a long drive and a long talk with the husky-voiced stranger, Sidney Frame had a telephone call of his own to make. "I've got another chappie for you," he told a friend in the special investigation branch of army headquarters. The words meant that Sidney Frame, "the trotters' friend," had just persuaded one more of the 7,000-odd deserters still missing from the British armed services to give himself up. "Sometimes I think he's balmy to do all this," said Mrs. Frame, "but then, I suppose every man must have...
Claudette's wedding to Ryan is halted by a stranger who announces that she is already married. This is news to her, but it seems to be borne out by a marriage license and a cloud of witnesses. Ryan sticks loyally by, knowing that these things have a way of working themselves out. When Claudette tracks down her supposed husband, a gun goes off behind a closed door, and she is found alone with his corpse. Tried for murder, she is committed to a mental institution in a sequence that looks something like a screen test for The Snake...