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...represents no great strain of the imagination to call the new Courtney Burr production a Victorian melodrama, despite the fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...
Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler, rambunctious chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, recently proposed a Senate investigation to find out. Last week, the Wheeler committee put a burr under the Senate in the form of a 94-page report on railroad reorganizations. The report painted an ugly picture...
...lobby, they looked as if they had been through a bad time themselves. When Phil Murray came to the little colonnade framing the doorway, he stopped. His face was red; his eyes tired. He seemed to lean against a column as he talked. Slowly, in his soft Scottish burr, he told reporters the news. He turned to Ben Fairless for confirmation. Fairless, too, was worn out. His semi-stiff collar was sweaty and crumpled; his arms dangled loosely at his side. "I approve the statement of Mr. Murray," he said. The doorman came to help the gentlemen with their coats...
Police reporters sought him out as they never had before. A few scholars and fellow poets saw in his case the ancient problem of the artist v. society. Jurists, who anticipated the most sensational case of its kind since the trial of Aaron Burr, wondered just how the U.S. proposed to convict its disaffected poet...
Tall, chesty Ian Mackenzie, Minister of Veterans Affairs, roared in his broadest Scottish burr: "We in Canada have shared the Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...