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VALCOUR MEETS MURDER?Rufus King ?Crime Club ($2). Eight hard-boiled characters, some virtuous, remain unreal through storm, fire, double death and transportation of stolen gems about the Canadian border; and Valcour remains Lieutenant Valcour...
...Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. . . . He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays?but he always pays. He is flattered before election. He is strongly patriotic. He is a commonplace man. He gives no trouble. He excites no admiration...
...being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...
This makes a situation in which our poor human nature is sorely tried. College officers may do their best, but under the most virtuous of deans it is difficult to keep the young athlete from taking pay if his college is cashing in on the game to the tune of hundreds of thousands. It is the Eighteenth Amendment complex transferred to college athletics...
...clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple shoes. "What I am no one would know and I do not know myself," says the motley boy. One thing only does he know?that the spirit of the doctor who cared for his dying friend is good, that in that new virtuous direction lies China's liberation...