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...Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband. I had ceased to care how I looked...
...closing of the position for Ackerman clearly resulted from a University decision that they could not commit themselves to an expansion of the field. An average permanent appointment lasts at Harvard for 35 years...
This familiar classified ad in the Washington News sent a despondent man to the phone in the dead of night. To the woman's voice that answered, he said: "I was intending to commit suicide tonight, and a friend told me to call you first." The warm voice at the other end began to pray. After a bit of prayer and a blessing, the would-be suicide felt unaccountably better. He mumbled his thanks and hung...
...began about eight months ago after Mrs. Shelhamer heard of the suicide of a prominent Washingtonian. "I just walked around the house and prayed. I didn't even kneel. 'Lord Jesus,' I said, 'why couldn't I contact some of these people before they commit suicide?' " A newspaperman wrote the classified ad for her and paid to run it daily for three months. Her telephone seems to have been ringing steadily ever since. One Sunday, the busiest day, she got no calls...
...minor offense, for 15. Posterity was shortly to commit a greater one in typing Robert Burns's career as a rake's progress. An early prohibitionist named Curne gave the legend a head start 150 years ago; in a biography written shortly after Burns's death, he portrayed him as a kind of Paul Bunyan of literary bad boys: a convivial roisterer of unslakable thirst and insatiable lust...