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...began when Army lawyer Joseph 'Welch asked McCarthy witness George Anastos '38, LL.B. '41, "Are you a graduate of that suspect place--Harvard?" When Anastos replied that he was, Welch confronted him with James St. Clair, a classmate of Anastos, whom Welch calls "his brilliant young assistant...
...king," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers is a quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird," as one observer put it, "and no stuffing...
...proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner's daughter (also Magali Vendeuil). "Perfectly useless," Director Clair calls his picture, but that, of course, is the point of it. Besides, as James Joyce showed, woolgathering can be a fine...
Eastment should get very strong performances even so from Jones in the 600; Frank Gaffney in the high jump; Bill St. Clair in the milo; Lon Moore in the broad jump; and both his excellent relays...
Intellectually, Director Anatole Litvak (Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number) has behaved something like a schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...