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...Other Cheek. In Nashville, Tenn., the Gideon Society's W. H. Mason persuaded the judge to drop larceny charges against three men who stole a box full of Bibles, gave each a New Testament...
...TIME'S editors. Beside Flaming Youth, Prohibition, Greenwich Village sofas, Gertrude Stein, and stubble-bearded Marxists, this generation probably seems like a mass-membership of the Union League Club. Youth attends church, belongs to the P.T.A., works on community programs, writes its Congressman (admittedly with tongue in cheek), will probably vote out badly governed government next year...
Miller's background includes musical comedies (Bonanza Bound!, Barefoot Boy with Cheek), a U.S. tour with Mae West in Diamond Lil ("she likes to have tall men around her"), a movie bit part in You're in the Navy Now, with Gary Cooper, and an Armed Forces training film where he played an "enemy" patrol leader. But this year boxing and acting together have brought him less than $1,500, or barely enough to cover the $20 a week he pays for room & board...
...year's cry against youth when he told of a tour through New York dance halls. TIME quoted him: "In one dance hall. . . we saw between 5,000 and 6,000 young men and women . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek of the girl against the cheek...
...Continental last year, failed with it on radio before he talked KNBH into giving the show a cautious try on TV. As writer and producer as well as The Continental's only actor, 39 year-old Cesana insists he plays his part with a tongue-in-cheek seriousness, hopes only "to furnish the ladies with the illusion of an escapade while they remain in the sanctity and safety of their own homes." j Of the ladies' husbands, he says handsomely: "American men have such a wonderful sense of humor...