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...also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp who seduces El Toro. Eddie finally gets fed up with the whole business; he realizes at last that he can't have Beth, that he has been a criminal among criminals. The novel has a wildly contrived and sentimental ending...
...they worked, Farmer Morrison, short, fat and overalled, wore a worried look. The harvest of his months-long labor was in the hands of an outsider: Thomas L. Dupree, a big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (228 lbs.) tramp harvester who had come in from Kansas with his caravan of combines, trucks and harvest hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat...
...Tramp's Job. Last week Dupree and 2,400 other self-contained tramp caravans like his were busy getting in the Oklahoma harvest, part of the greatest wheat crop in U.S. history. The Department of Agriculture raised its estimates of its size once more, this time to 1,409,000,000 bushels. The job would not have been done without the cutters who have taken the place of the old migrant harvest hands. The business was born during the war, when wheat farmers expanded their acreage far beyond what they could harvest with their own machinery (TIME, July...
...carrying on with his wife, though he coldly hints his awareness of what's up. Coast Guardsman Ryan slowly comes to realize 1) that the painter is holding Joan trapped in a sadistic relationship, 2) that Joan is no lady in distress but a bone-bred tramp, 3) that the pair of them are exploiting him for ugly, mysterious reasons of their...
...inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with...