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...Awful Truth. An hour and a half after the first A. P. bulletin from San Francisco, the White House newsmen were ushered in to the President. In four crisp sentences, Harry Truman blew the surrender report sky high. He said he had checked it with General Eisenhower; it had "no foundation...
...film tells of an Irish girl of the 1870's (Greer Garson) who becomes a servant in the home of a mill owner (Donald Crisp) whom her legless, ex-millhand father (Lionel Barrymore) hates. She watches over the mill owner's stuffy, weak or shallow children (Dan Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage...
...hampered by more stolid and much more pretentious material, Director Tay Garnett is still clearly the man who gave the melodramas Bataan and The Cross of Lorraine their honest intensity, and Cameraman Joseph Ruttenberg and several players-notably the Misses Cooper, Tandy and Hunt and Messrs. Peck and Crisp-add valuable services of their own. The main reason the picture will do well, though, is that it gives Greer Garson a chance at something...
...ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil old days before the war, he and his playfellows of Europe's smart set used to play roulette. Now the grimmer chances of history had closed France...
...propeller, presents an odd, squat profile with an upswept rear end (to keep out of the way of the hot blast from the jets). Ground crewmen give the plane a wide berth at its takeoff; anyone within 20 feet of the jets would be burned to a crisp. But in the air, the fuel is burned so completely in the combustion chamber that the jets show no flame, even at night. The openings in front of the plane through which air is sucked into the motor posed a problem: they also sucked in birds. Engineers have partly solved the problem...