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...Keith Thompson in the June 23 issue concerning the German war prisoners of Spandau. I do not know Mr. Thompson (thank God), but I presume from his letter that he is a typical American do-gooder, or a Christian determined to out-Christian all others in turning the unslapped cheek...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...
Order of the Dragon. A golfer who wants to break par should have gold needles in the leg, chest, shoulder and cheek, and above the left eye, said Dr. de la Füye, and silver needles in the knee and belly. He also had prescriptions for swimmers, bicyclists and concert pianists...
...Hall reported yesterday that her five year old son had sustained injuries of the temple and the side of the cheek requiring medical attention. She said she hoped the student who had hit her son would contact her so medical expenses could he settled...
This, the observant naturalist points out, is the meaning of the Biblical admonition : " 'And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.' Not so that your enemy may strike you again do you turn the other cheek . . . but to make him unable to do it." Naturalist Lorenz, drawing a moral, says that the day may come when mankind will be divided into two camps, each with the power of destroying the other. "Shall we then behave like doves or wolves? . . . We may well be apprehensive...