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...give-away craze, fired by Miss Hush and the Walking Man, reached white heat. Last week's prizes ranged from a burnt match to a "new future" (a completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about...
...That the Bible teaches "a single, clear, ethical code, applicable to everyday living . . . although they had read how Noah pleased God with the odor of a sweet-smelling sacrifice and how Micah cried out against [burnt offerings]. ... It was as though Jesus had never said: 'Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time . . . but I say unto...
Fire swept through a Hastings Hall suite last night and in 15 minutes reduced the room of three law students to a smoking mass of burnt woodwork and soaked furniture. Damage may amount to over...
...they are the same kind of shortcomings that can be found in the works of any good writer, not the puerile once generally found in college literary magazines. The excellence of this issue may be due to its inevitable growth, or it may be just an accident. Give a burnt offering that it is not the latter...
...wonder, either, that last week's opening had most Broadway critics not just tossing their hats in the air but completely losing their heads. For this Antony is so much better than Broadway's burnt veterans dared expect that they could be excused for thinking it better than it is. It is good; but it has limitations and even weaknesses. It exhibits almost every grade of acting. It could sometimes be grander, and sometimes more exciting; and it could many times do better by Shakespeare's language...