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Beaverbrook's chosen champion was melancholy Bonar Law, a fellow Canadian who as leader of the Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook...
...Died. Bonar Thompson, 74, Britain's foremost practitioner of the art of soapbox oratory, whose clarion Irish brogue dominated London's Hyde Park Corner for half a century; in London...
...synthetic Italian, so is the movie. Filmed in Naples, it deals with such elemental matters as poverty, sex and jealousy, but Flame is no more earthy than a surburban child patting mud pies. The plot has Lana, down to her last lira, befriended by a true-blue simpleton (Bonar Colleano), who promptly falls in love with her. Moving into his apartment, Lana falls in love, instead, with his roommate. Singer Carlos Thompson, who looks remarkably like TV's Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and acts with all the intensity of one of Winchell's puppets. Pier Angeli. Thompson...
...bound volume in the Notable British Trials series, 17-year-old Donald escaped conviction for the murder: the jury's verdict, under a useful Scots law, was "Not Proven." But he went to prison for forgery, and after a year, emerged to elope with 17-year-old Isobel Bonar. The honeymoon was scarcely over when the young couple were indicted for fraud. Isobel was acquitted; Donald got nine more months...
...Harry (A Walk in the Sun) Brown, the picture effectively depicts a war of ruins, rubble and mud-spattered patrols. The eight iron men are less convincing: they are types rather than real soldiers, e.g., the nervous G.I. (Richard Kiley), the philosophical G.I. (Nick Dennis), the amorous G.I. (Bonar Col-leano). But the film transfers the play to the screen with a muscular compactness and economy. Although it is only a minor cinematic skirmish, Eight Iron Men strikes an authentic ring of realism from the monotony of war and the soldiers' code of comradeship...