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...presented with such excellency the spirit of the Finnish people and the obstacles they have had to surmount because they live under the shadow of the historical Russian bully . . . What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu...
...dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating 'We've got to create Europe' as they wheeled him into the operating room...
Staged in authentic British locales by Director Richard Thorpe, Ivanhoe is at its best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with...
...exercised by a shifty-eyed demagogue and Japanese puppet named Son Ngoc Thanh. After V-J day, Puppet Son Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver of fast sport cars...
...President was getting this off his chest, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer penned a letter to a House maritime subcommittee. Sawyer accused Comptroller General Warren of making "silly and untrue" statements. Wrote Sawyer: Warren simply wanted to create "a public impression that the Comptroller General, a knight in white armor, is defending the taxpayers from some nefarious plot to which I and the Maritime Board are parties ... If a private citizen makes a bad contract, he is not allowed three years later to say that he ... will not go through with it. The same should apply to the Government...