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...long 'free enterprise' seemed to mean only that the British employer was free from responsibility for his employees' welfare. Now the state comes to these undernourished men & women, provides their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...
...talk to big Mike Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
...scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny makes Cotton famous, but the girl, now lost, matters more than success and he finds her after a long search in a storm off Cape Cod. But although the artist senses he unreality, constantly commenting on it, the porducer was apparently afraid the point was fuzzy and employed all kinds of trick photography and mood music to accentuate the "message" of the picture...
Murder on Cape Cod...
...fictitious killing at Hyannis, on Cape Cod, will serve as the basis of the plot, Taylor said. Further details of the plot were unavailable last night, since the latest edition of the script had not reached Taylor's desk...