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...characters almost as magically compelling, in their peculiar way, as Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor...
...possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting further Russian expansion, the Arab threat to raise Middle East havoc as an answer to Jewish immigration is no threat at all. But despite all speculation, UN failure to deal with the refugee problem at once will convict it of its greatest weakness to date-a disregard for humanity...
...other people were asking. Supposedly Happy Chandler had ruled on a spring-training squabble between Rickey and the Yankees' garrulous Boss Larry MacPhail, who had gone to Chandler with it. But since Durocher had been only a sideliner (if a noisy one) in that fight, Chandler had to convict him of more. So he dragged up the "accumulated unpleasant incidents" Durocher had been involved in (TIME, April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled...
...folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which bred and bellowed in the wild lemon jungles, ate so many lemons that they made themselves sick...
Last week Smith's beard was in bushy bloom. So, after three embarrassing months (during which one man was mistaken for an escaped convict), were the beards of many males in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. To go with them, womenfolk dragged out their grandmothers' dresses. With beards, bustles and a banquet, Poughkeepsie celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Smith Brothers...