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...rare motion picture magnate who can resist burdening screens with a sequel to any smash hit. Happily, the public has been spared an acquaintance with the Son of Fan Fan the Tulip. Instead, Rene Clair has taken the materials that made Fan Fan so entertaining--a fanciful script, Gerard Phillipe and Gina Lollabrigia--and gone on to new triumphs...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beauties of the Night | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Secretary Stevens may find some (if only a little) consolation in the fact that the granddaddy of all congressional investigations was directed at an Army chief. In 1792 the House established the first congressional investigating committee in U.S. history to probe the massacre of Major General Arthur St. Clair's Indian-fighting army near the Ohio-Indiana border. St. Clair, whose command of 2,000 had been largely "purchased from prisons, wheelbarrows and brothels at $2 a month," resigned his commission, but was eventually exonerated. By remarkable coincidence, a direct descendant of the general, Boston lawyer James St. Clair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terror of Tellico Plains | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...million, which the Treasury expects to recoup from toll charges. Eventually, by dredging the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Mary's rivers, ocean shipping may be able to reach Duluth and Canadian towns in the western reaches of Lake Superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Plunge | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...references were clearly to Army lawyer Joseph N. Welch, LL.B. '17 and his assistant, James St. Clair, LL.B. '41 on the Stevens side. But the only Harvard graduate with the forces of Senator McCarthy is one of the Senator's investigators, George Anastos '38, LL.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Comments On Alumni's Role In Army Hearings | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

...Hello, George," said St. Clair to his classmate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Graduates Hold Unusual Reunion | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

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