Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Sons (20th Century-Fox) attempts to probe the psychology that makes fifth columns possible, by tracing the effects of Naziism on a Sudeten mother and three of her sons before & after Munich. It is not badness, but his own discipline and strength, that draws the second son (Alan Curtis) to the disciplined and brutal Nazis. It is not strength, but muddlement that makes the eldest son (Don Ameche), a loyal Czech, kill his Nazi brother. Their mother (Eugenie Leontovich) suffers, but she never quite understands what it is all about...
...people remember baseball a hundred years from now, Dizzy Dean will probably be remembered as one of the great pitchers of the 20th Century. In his first five years with the St. Louis Cardinals he averaged 24 victories a year. His 17 strikeouts in one game (in 1933) still stands as a four-star feat in modern baseball. But to this generation, Dizzy Dean, "a man of a few thousand words," may be better remembered for his performances off the field than...
...itself the material is of great though specialized interest. But the book shows how, from the first maps collaborated on by Greek navigators to the elaborate precisions of 20th-century archeologists, there are abundant lessons of the value of man's knowledge...
...might not a prince of American automobile manufacturers head a list of million-dollar contributors to show that, though he admires science and efficiency, he hates them when a race of 20th-century barbarians turns them to calculated destruction...
...first to retrench was Walt Disney. He has moved his entire staff to a new studio at Burbank, dropping some 400 people, about a quarter of his payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...