Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guest in the House (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists) is the psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
...Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs only a few weeks to set all the members of the household against each other: servants, artist's-model, wife & child fly apart like a fragmentation bomb, leaving her in complete possession of the artist...
...fate of the educational program of the college. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Like many another university, Harvard has been deeply concerned in the past twelve months with the question of the objectives of a college education--of a general education or a liberal education as apart from professional or preprofessional training...
...shoulder-deep last week in two great battles 13,000 miles apart-the battle of Luzon, in the Philippines, and the battle of the Ardennes in Belgium and Luxembourg (see below). As combat operations, the two seemed as remote from one another as though fought on different planets. On the plane of global strategy and logistics, they were tightly interlocked...
Rundstedt had to hold apart the Allied pincers north and south of Houffalize-and he did. But in the "box position" which jutted southeast of Bastogne, the Germans were mauled. The area had been shelled by heavy Allied field guns 24 hours a day ever since Dec. 27. Finally, General Patton attacked the box simultaneously from west and south, trapped a sizable enemy force, captured 3,400, killed other thousands, chased the rest into the woods...