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With his election victory safely tucked away, Juan Peron moved last week to square his account with the army. It was stubborn opposition in the army's upper ranks last summer which forced Juan and Eva Peron to drop their brash project of running as a family ticket for President and Vice President. It was a humiliating setback, and the Perons do not forget...
...nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
...news that moonshiners were at work within the University shocked both professors and students last week: Only a small, far-sighted group declined to make brash assumptions of the crime and corruption. To that group, only the positive side of the situation became evident...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
...happy phrase. Eccles on wage controls: "... I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability." Some of the older Tories look down their noses at Eccles as a brash publicity hunter. The truth is that he is a very good man whose reputation is likely to spread all over the world in the next decade...