Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle, filmed in 1948 and now current as part of a two-hour, three-layer omnibus titled Ways of Love (TIME, Dec. 18), is second-rate Rossellini despite a virtuoso performance by Anna Magnani. Performing a minor acting miracle herself, she makes almost credible her role as an insane peasant woman who believes she is to bear a holy child fathered by Saint Joseph...
...Senate, North Dakota's "Wild Bill" Langer got up on his aging legs to block the confirmation of Anna M. Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of Defense (TIME, Dec. 25). He had nothing to say against her, but he just felt that his own North Dakota was not getting enough federal patronage. He would block any presidential nomination, Langer threatened, until some North Dakotan got a first-class Washington job. The Senate heard him out, gave Mrs. Rosenberg its endorsement the next...
...afflicted, if he is innocent, can hope for a cure only by entering into a prolonged and complicated course of prescribed incantation. No exception could be made when the charge was leveled, a fortnight ago, at George Marshall's bright-eyed, energetic new Assistant Secretary of Defense, Anna M. Rosenberg...
...witness, now an unemployed pressagent, swore that he had seen Anna Rosenberg at meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
...promised, his divorced wife contradicted him completely and added that he was a man of violently unstable emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...