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...points to the Legion; now, he hopes, Amber will meet less resistance in neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
Multiple Bruises. In Los Angeles, Marie Waterman, who caught her fingers in a window while she was naked, and was rescued by a stranger, sued her landlord for $10,000 damages to her hand, $2,500 damages to her modesty...
...Skunk. Sherm was no stranger to the labor board. Back in 1937, nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...
...Yours Very Truly." As a postal administrator in Washington the last 14 years, Donaldson is still a stranger to most of the town's politicians. He had had a nodding acquaintance with County Judge Harry Truman in Kansas City in the '20s, but in Washington has seen him only infrequently. For the past year he has sometimes sat in at Cabinet meetings for often-absent Bob Hannegan; but he spoke only when spoken...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...