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...scared stiff. It was night and the police were after him. So was his gang. For almost seven months he had been on the lam, sleeping in flophouses, always moving. He had no tie. His hat & coat were gone. When he came to a church he went inside. It was dark there, too. He was still scared, too scared. In the empty, still church he began to scream...
...best gooseflesh dramas in years, Kind Lady is an especial favorite with Brady because it is tailored to the talents of his wife, Grace George. In 1935, as a gentle, fragile spinster kept prisoner in her own home by a gang of terrifying crooks intent upon driving her potty, Miss George won great critical kudos. It was repeated last week...
...October 18 the CRIMSON fired the first shot in the battle when it attacked President Conant (who had urged lifting the arms embargo), Bishop Manning of New York, and President Seymour of Yale, accusing them of "earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway to Armageddon...
...middle to lower class. Her father, a river roustabout, onetime bootlegger, consorts with prostitutes, quarrels violently with his family, once was axed by Julia's older sister. Her mother whipped Julia regularly from babyhood. "As a child, she was a favorite with the 'across-the-tracks' gang of boys and girls. They fought with rocks, knives and sometimes with pistols. At 14 she saw a boy badly stabbed by another in an argument over her at a school picnic. She married at 16. and had a fist-and-chair fight with her husband the first time...
TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...