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Like the cry of Stentor, a voice arose last week over the noise of rush-hour traffic at Chicago's Archer and Western Avenues. "It was Henry Ford who made the automobile," it thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town...
Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
Destination Moon uses expert technical tricks to picture the oddities of travel beyond the earth's atmosphere and gravity Its four lunar explorers-a physicist (Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions...
...Winslow Boy (London Films; Eagle Lion). Between 1908 and 1910, England was deeply stirred by a struggle between a teen-aged schoolboy and a hidebound bureaucratic government. At 13, George Archer-Shee had been expelled without trial from the Royal Naval...
...London and Broadway stage hit, The Winslow Boy (1946-47), Playwright Terence Rattigan stuck fairly closely to the facts of the Archer-Shee case, while rigging them skillfully for theatrical effect. In the movie version, Scripters Rattigan and Anatole de Grunwald stick too closely to the play. As a result, despite some superior dialogue and top-drawer British acting, the film plods along with more patience than it is likely to find in U.S. moviegoers...