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...then be absorbed into the Foreign Office. But last week, with its major tasks finished, two of its brightest stars departed. Minister Bracken, 44, a Churchillian favorite, whose unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...
...Producer Skirball gets his name up there twice. When that is over you enter a charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially very sinister; lawyers (notably Cruikshank-like John Carradine) are crooks who will not only not stop at murder but prefer to begin with it; gangsters (William Bendix et al.) hold stockholders' meetings as punctiliously as any other big businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon...
...hammer throw, Jack Fisher outdistanced his brother and big Tom White to win a third. The winner was Cheat Cruikshank, Captain of the Fort Devens team, who heaved the weight 157 feet, 9 and 15-16 inches...
Last week onetime Champion Du Bois, now Mrs. Richard V. Pell, finished seventh, with a score of 184 (95-89). "She did marvelously well," chirped her cronies, explaining that 200-lb., thrice-married Leila Cruikshank Stockton Du Bois Pell, now 58, and more interested in showing dachshunds than playing golf, had not touched a club in two months...
Some of the engravings and portraits of Kean were done by Cruikshank, and depict the actor in some of his better-known roles...