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"Betrayal." After the Fair Deal's high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise...
The first breathtaking news about $100,000 lifted from a University safe reached here recently when the man who masterminded the heist made a full confession in the pages of last week's Collier's magazine.
Littérateur. In Kristiansand, Norway, Carstein Brekke insisted on personally writing his own confession to a murder charge, on the grounds that police versions were much too commonplace and lacked "an intellectual form."
...sense of guilt, Sheen says, the Roman Catholic Church can lead him to God-through confession, absolution and penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
No One Must Know. The story was not quite the way Gerald said it was, but it was bad enough. Mrs. Sullivan had two sons (both now in the Marines) and a daughter. Her husband had deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of...