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Near the end of the novel a Jewish terrorist pointlessly murders the most powerful and fervent of the older Zionists-a man who had sworn that Jews would never kill Britons. Arabesque, like the Middle East adventure stories that Eric Ambler spins, is no great shakes as a work of art, but it manages, along with romance, a dispassionate little picture of the way the tide was running toward the recent desperate events in Palestine...
...Ford Theater (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Eric Ambler's creepy man hunt through the Balkans, A Coffin for Dimitrios...
...Rogell got cowboys to double for the stars. Though women have never been allowed in the Stampede, the picture's plot calls for a hard-riding heroine to shame the hero into being a real bronco-busting man. A former world's champion all-round cowboy, Jerry Ambler, got the assignment to double for redheaded Joan Leslie. In a red wig, he came out of the chutes at the fair grounds, astride a bucking bull. The grandstands hooted...
...sentimentality was not to be confused with his tenderness; Tarkington's affection for Penrod and Willy Baxter, for Alice Adams and Claire Ambler and all his young people, gave life to his novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass...
...Ambler...