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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three short stories could stand as ideals for Advocate stories. They are all limited in scope and written in simple language, but within their limitations they are well-handled and they have many excellent passages. The best of the three is "A Thousand Miles Away," by Charles Flood--a simple but effective story of a woman who recalls an old love affair from the midst of her happily married life. Billy Joyner's "Dark Faces" is not I think, up to the very high standard of his first two Advocate stories, but is still an excellent atmosphere piece about...
...Night Express was lying just beyond a blind curve, and its brakeman had hurried a thousand feet back along the tracks with a red flag in his hand. When he saw the Red Arrow rumbling toward him, he stood between the rails in the bright morning sunshine and waved desperately. He had to jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways...
...left Siberian waters and headed down the coast toward Japan. Out at sea, Lieut. McCord lifted the ship several thousand feet. It was dark when we landed. Lieut. Commander Nittinger was waiting for us. He invited us to stay for dinner...
...tended to be cool or puzzled, or both. Churchmen tended to be pleased at the fresh evidence of a partnership between godliness and grease paint. Said St. Thomas's vicar, the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin: "A first-class play by a first class author is worth more than a thousand sermons-even mine. Religion ought to be a clue to living. The old methods are no good...
...when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete's sake, Dave or one of you, Wake up, will...