Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker, who commands some of the highest fees in the business (up to $75,000 a case), was going into his big act: the summation for the defense in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, onetime bright young man of the State Department...
...bright summer morning in Guns-bach when he was 21, Schweitzer awoke and calmly came to a momentous decision: "I would consider myself justified in living until I was 30 for science and art, in order to devote myself from that time forward to the direct service of humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found...
Take One False Step (Universal-International) features William Powell climbing in & out of a highly unlikely scrape. As a distinguished educator in search of a university endowment, Powell appears hardly bright enough to run a class in finger-painting. Though happily married, he accepts a date with a blonde barfly
Given the sturdy talents of the two principals, there was a chance in this one for some bright comic touches. Unfortunately, Irwin Shaw, who wrote the screenplay, and Director Chester Erskine, who stumbled about in surplus dialogue and plot, failed to exploit the story's skimpy elements of suspense. Take One False Step sets out to be a sprightly whodunit. After the first reel, it turns into a sad case of who cares...
Having waved aside the prospect of immortality, Writer Mencken laid about him with such relish that it finally settled into a kind of smugness. His iconoclasm became a trademark and an act; the Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that...