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Before Ike's wire arrived, Harry Truman, consumed with a devotion to presidential business which he had not displayed during the campaign, sent off an Air Force colonel-courier with a "top secret" message, part of which urged Ike to take quick action in choosing representatives to the Bureau of the Budget and the State and Defense Departments...
Executive Editor James S. Pope of the pro-Stevenson Louisville Courier-Journal put his finger on the chief source of the complaints. Said he: "Readers cannot judge the objectivity of a newspaper in a presidential campaign for the simple reason that they cannot read objectively. Most of them do not want objectivity-they want their side favored...
Diplomatic Courier (20th Century-Fox) gets off to a fast start with some semidocumentary shots-directed by old semidocumentary hand Henry ( The House on 92nd Street) Hathaway-on the latest technological devices by which the U.S. State Department keeps in touch with its far-flung outposts...
Unhappily, the picture soon digresses from lively realism to lagging melodramatics. Tyrone Power is a topflight U.S. diplomatic courier bound from Paris for Salzburg to pick up secret documents from another courier. To make sure that he is on schedule, Power wears two wrist watches. The picture also allows him two beautiful girls-a mink-coated American minx (Patricia Neal) and a blonde European charmer (Hildegarde Neff...
...civil war. "If there is ever a revolution in America," Ulrich used to say, "get yourself an armored train. It is the only comfortable way to go through a revolution." Pending a revolution, he taught Chambers all the wrinkles of underground work, from invisible ink to serving as a courier, to developing microfilms in the bathroom of a Gay Street apartment in Greenwich Village. In 1934 Ulrich returned to Russia. His final warning: "Remember, Bob, there are only two ways that you can really leave us: you can be shot by them or you can be shot...