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Expected. By Fred Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, who has lived for four years in an iron lung, and Teresa Larkin Snite, 25: a child; in September. Said Snite: "God continues to shower us with all his choicest blessings...
Produced by Pandro S. Berman (Gunga Din, Michael Strogoff), the picture has big milling mobs, the Cathedral of Notre Dame (with close-ups of Gothic sculpture), some of the year's choicest bits of sadism (a flogging, a racking, an unsuccessful hanging), a pitched battle on the cathedral steps, and darkly witching Maureen O'Hara, last seen in a den of cut throats in Jamaica Inn, here seen in a den of cutthroats in medieval Paris...
...After some of the filthier lyrics are strained out, the air waves will be carrying "When Love Beckoned," "But in the Morning, No," "Do I Love You?", and "It Was Written in the Stars." But right now, they are only parts of a show which is one of the choicest bits of the fall theatre season...
...Nearest competitor: The New Poetry, edited by the late Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (Macmillan), 23,704 copies printed. Queerest: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, edited by the late William Butler Yeats (Oxford). Choicest: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (Faber & Faber...
...tiger-hunting, spade-bearded Republican Representative George Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk back to you-just like...