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Vengeance Is Mine. For the padre a test comes soon enough. Another prisoner finds that the Chinese girl with whom he has fallen in love is living near the prison camp. Will Padre Choyce slip through the barbed wire with him and marry him to his girl? A short time before, the chaplain would have been horrified at the risk; now, somewhat to his surprise, he considers it his spiritual duty to go. In the novel's climax, the prisoner's wife has been raped by the Japanese, and he avenges her in a burst of human rage...
...Puritans were ahead going into the stretch, but they caught a crab, and spent enough time recovering to let Eliot slip on to victory. Leverett, Adams, and Lowell were bunched ten seconds behind the winner...
...does not have to result in complications. Those in charge of the soliciting next fall should do two things. Above the space on the donation blank for unlisted charities, they should state that only gifts to genuine charities will be handled. Then, if any gags or impossible requests slip through, the donor should be consulted personally before his gift is added to the unallocated fund. The reputation of the Combined Charities Drive is worth this added care...
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...door soap salesman, Neil McElroy long ago hit on a simple formula for winning customers: "Give them something good and expose them to it often." As boss of Procter & Gamble Co., biggest U.S. soapmakers, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) President McElroy, 45, has never let the old selling formula slip out of his hands. Thanks to that, as P. & G. reported last week, earnings for the first nine months of its current fiscal year soared to $49 million, up $15.5 million from last year. What impressed stockholders even more was that P. & G.'s earnings were climbing...