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...Brooklyn Dodgers were two games out in front. One man who had a lot to do with it was a wartime pickup who wasn't very big, had only a fair arm and couldn't outrun his grandmother. But Ed ("The Brat") Stanky, 28, has the Dodger habit of getting into fights (which is good box office) and a high talent for getting bases-on-balls (which is good baseball...
...game with the Pittsburgh Pirates two weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally got the fourth ball...
...remembers Susan's (Joan Fontaine) sister and brother-in-law (Rosemary De Camp and Henry Morgan), brat-beset and waterlogged in poverty; and how, despite that portentous domestic scene, he and Susan got engaged that evening. He remembers the long, sickening period after he was laid off (from a turret lathe), when he pawned his tools, and pounded the pavements, while Susan's work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only...
...result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding...
Londoners harrumphed that the U.S. was acting like a brat with a new toy. The acidulous London Tribune summed up British opinion: "Since President Truman's . . . speech, there has been a rapid and unchecked growth of the deadly feeling that we are aimlessly drifting into some dark future which can only bring new and unprecedented disaster...