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...stiffens with rage and groans in despair at just the right moments. Yet he also includes a touch of pathos which gives the comedy depth. Roddy McDowall has a smaller role as Will's whining and utterly realistic buddy, but he manages it neatly. Lastly, Howard Freeman and Royal Beal create convincing characters out of the two red-faced generals, who stomp and fume and titter falsely before exploding...
...purpose were bound to differ from those of M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make him one of the foremost U.S. horticulturists. Entomologist Albert Cook developed a kerosene emulsion that became a standard insecticide for Michigan fruit...
EXPERIENCE paid off last week for TIME. CORRESPONDENT JOHN BEAL of the Washington Bureau is an old hand at covering the Department of State. As a result, when DOS announced that ASSISTANT SECRETARY WALTER S. ROBERTSON and ADMIRAL ARTHUR W. RADFORD were hurrying to Formosa for routine consultations, Beal raised skeptical eyebrows and went to work...
...phoned Robertson, who refused to let him accompany him to the airport. Rushing to the airport alone. Beal questioned DOS men waiting to see the party off. They were noncommittal. But Beal, circulating and asking circumspect questions, picked up the clue that sent him racing back into the maze of Washington officialdom...
...turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations on the theme of guilt or innocence...