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...Picture. At first glance All This and Heaven Too seemed to have almost everything that could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic...
...unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood ready and the men in it, commanded by hard-bitten old General Henri Gerard Winckelman, had their...
...pondered in advance each complex consequence. At best (Allied victory) the quadrumvirate foresaw worldwide eco nomic chaos; at worst (German victory) the U. S. would be, in Phrasemaker Berle's words, "in the unfortunate position of an old-fashioned general store in a town full of hard-bitten chains...
...deniers in Washington, foreign opinion on the Welles mission changed: like hosts speaking their mind after the guest left, editorial writers sneered at the unreality and ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells (see cut). A hard-bitten British officer, holding up the Conte di Savoia for 13 hours while Sumner Welles sat in his cabin writing his report, took one last occasion to remind the U. S. of Britain's position: "This is war," said he. "There might be somebody aboard whom we want to take...
...that onetime Pursuit Pilot Goring has not forgotten this lesson. Germany's training equipment is about 25% greater than that of the Allies, and it is a safe guess that it is being used to turn out replacements at a pro portionate rate for the oil-smeared, fire-bitten men who will go down if the air war is begun on a full-dress scale...