Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crime and Punishment," the psychological study of a starving student who murders because he thinks he is above the laws of man, follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov...
...Senate was acting almost as fast on the companion bill that South Dakota's able, stable Republican Chan Gurney introduced in September. (He was the first in the Senate to dare to talk truth about drafting the young.) In the bill the House passed were several points not in the Senate measure, but Congress' new mood of work-and-win was expected to resolve the differences quickly...
...rush of the German armies, and manages to pick up, in addition to a junior League of Nations, a growing awareness of the import of the struggle in which his country is engaged. Roddy MacDowall-the young Hugh Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"--is Woolley's chief companion on his strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from portraying them all as violent, drooling, bully-boys. There is an ingeniously written part...
Joan Hoff Thorsen, a recently married college graduate (Northwestern U.), a New York model for less than a year, shot up from nowhere to ring the bell like this: in the next few weeks her face will be on the covers of LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook and American Magazine; Walter Winchell labeled her the most beautiful model in Manhattan. Why: her face; the rest: 35-in. bust, ditto hips, 25-in. waist, 5 ft. 8½ in. height, 114 lb. Eleanor Roosevelt modeled again, this time a two-piece wool suit-dress in Eleanor...
...wife she laid out a program of study for him, encouraged him to read, led him to the classics-subsequently could not keep him from quoting them. Well-informed in politics and labor, she never expressed her opinions in public, took small part in social affairs except as companion to her husband...