Word: vagrants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some vagrant amusement is provided by Actor Webb's impersonation of a strong, silent westerner patterned after Gary Cooper, and by Jack La Rue's bit as a movie star who fancies himself the living model of the tough, coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes...
Frame's hobby began one day last year when in a police court Frame ran across a deserter who had been picked up as a vagrant. He made friends with the man, investigated his case and found that he had "trotted" in 1944 because his wife had TB. "The case opened my eyes," said Frame. "I had always held the popular misconception that deserters were no-goods, but then it occurred to me that many of them must have had what they felt were good reasons...
Later he was summoned to visit an 18-year-old vagrant who was dying of tetanus. Much to his surprise he heard himself telling the boy: "You have just as good a chance with God as I have. You will be with Him soon, and I'll stay with you till you get there." Explains Harkness: "Gone was my previous thinking about the awful justice of God which demanded confession of sin and acceptance of the atonement of Christ on the cross. I only knew that the love of God is broader than the measure...