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Mother Don't Tell Me (20th Century-Fox) is a comic elaboration of one of the hard facts of medicine: it's tough to be a doctor's wife. In milking it for laughs, Scripter-Director Claude Binyon manipulates the fact into arrant Hollywood fiction, and too often forces the comedy into farce. But thanks mostly to an ingratiating performance by Dorothy McGuire, the movie passes the time pleasantly...
...thing the British housewife longed for, and that was to get back to bacon & eggs. I am sure," she admitted, "that every man here longs for a nice big juicy steak." But such yearnings, she insisted, were in reality nothing but an anachronistic hangover from the days of arrant capitalism when "meat was an index of prosperity," when men "ate steaks [because] it was the thing to do, like wearing a white stiff collar . . ." Enlightened Socialism "had established new feeding habits showing themselves in the decreased morbidity rate, the decreased mortality rate...
Though 83, fiery Mrs. Terrell decided to fight. "I thought I'd be an arrant coward," she said, "unless I opened the way for other colored women." She applied for membership in the national A.A.U.W. and got in; Washington was ordered to take her in or get out of the association. Instead, Washington took the case to court and won the three-year fight; under the association's national bylaws, the court said, Washington had a right to exclude anyone it chose. Last week, at its national convention in Seattle, the A.A.U.W. voted to change the bylaws...
Historicus does not deny Stalin's arrant opportunism. What he shows is that Stalin and the world Communist Party guide their main course on the basis of a hard core of theory, and have done so for 25 years with "amazing consistency." Around the hard core of theory is a hard layer of what Stalin calls program. Around this is a layer of strategy, then an outer husk of tactics...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...