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...reputation was Edwin A. Grozier, who, as Joseph Pulitzer's secretary, had studied under a master. When Grozier bought the Post in 1891, it had less than 3,000 circulation. Grozier sent it climbing by such stunts as opening up the society pages, previously the exclusive preserve of Beacon Hill belles, to rosy-cheeked colleens from the South Boston slums. He sent Joe Knowles, a nature lover, into the Maine woods to prove that a man could live like Adam, without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped...
...posters outside the Beacon Hill theatre put a puzzling question to the moviegoer. "Should a girl confide her innermost secrets--dare she?" Intrigued by this and stimulated by suggestive captions on equally suggestive publicity photos, he buys a ticket to Tomorrow Is Too Late. But the moviegoer's illusions about seeing another Silvana Mangano in action fizzle rapidly when he discovers that the film is dedicated "to children and to adults who forget they were once children." Despite these handicaps, Tomorrow Is Too Late is an entertaining movie...
...Meadows on Worcester Road near Framingham is also a favorite dance-and drink spot, renowned for its inepensive cocktails. The afore-mentioned Novak's is making a new bid for the college crowd. Located on Beacon Street in the Long-wood section, it is especially pleasant in the spring and summer...
...second time on the screen this month, the F.B.I. relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...
...real espionage cases of Soviet Agent Harry Gold and Britain's Atomic Scientist Klaus Fuchs, the picture develops its anti-Red theme in such simple blacks & whites that it becomes a rather obvious thriller. In Alfred Werker's plodding direction of a talky screenplay. Walk East on Beacon moves at a too-leisurely pace for an action picture. Lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings are actual backgrounds filmed in Washington, New Hampshire and Boston...