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...TIME'S Jan. 13 story cited rumors that Count Luckner, famed sea raider of World War I, was raiding again in the Pacific, not in his yacht Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") but in a 7,100-ton armed merchantman. Now 56-according to Wer Ist's, the German Who's Wh -the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books...
Half the fun of The Devil and Miss Jones is in sharing Charles Coburn's secret while unknowing shoe clerks push him around. The other half comes from the lightsome little comedy itself, which bubbles along without a hitch under the knowing hand of Director Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Our Town; Kitty Foyle). Comedienne Arthur plays second fiddle to the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Coburn...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...
...British and American propagandists made much of Nietzsche's wicked writings "The Antichrist," "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Thus Spake Zarathustra"--to prove that the Kaiser and his clique (none of them had probably ever read or even heard of the books) were leagued with the devil. Today the German rulers not only read but preach from Nietzschean texts. By careful excision the official Nazi philosophers have adapted Nietzche's works to buttress and lend a respectable philosophical aura to their case. Friedrich Nietzsche who despised his contemporary Germans, who was bitterly anti-anti-semitic, who wrote of himself...
...Niebuhr's "conversion" is a sign of the times. In the easy '20s sin was becoming an archaism, like the devil's tail and angels with six wings. Calvin Coolidge's preacher was against it, but liberal clergymen were accepting the Platonic conception of sin as ignorance, echoing the words of Socrates that no man knowingly does that which is wrong. The doctrine of progressive evolution had helped explain away the existence of evil in a God-made world; humanity seemed to be getting better and better; and righteousness was somehow just around the corner...