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The treacherous criminal stole up behind Lee Tracy and knocked him out with the butt of a revolver. But moments later, 54-year-old Actor Tracy leaped nimbly to his feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful...
The modes of punishment were, incidentally, especially interesting. As soon as the University frowned upon a student, the machinery for disciplinary action began rolling. Fines, admonitions, and public confessions were first tried, in that order. When these failed, flogging was in order, often accompanied by a public confession like the...
Furthermore, the fellow had angered the local Carmelites by taking over from them the hearing of confession in the town, and the Capuchins by discrediting their cloister's miracle-working image. There was, however, some consolation, for the priestly popinjay had made an enemy of Cardinal Richelieu by walking...
Amazingly, in his last ordeal, the smirking canonical rake became a man. He refused to make a false confession, found his own soul, and died with a dignity that put the fear of God (and the devils) in his judges.
To categorize "Arrow in the Blue" as just another confession of a former CP member would be doing Koestler an injustice. Most of those Saturday Evening Post type chronicles picture their writers as poor, misguided aesthetes who took Marx as their personal savior, and who have learned the hard way...