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...Folsom did not send me to Eleanor Tennant for coaching . . . It was after I had discontinued lessons with him that a friend of mine, Mrs. Curt Tree, of Los Angeles, recommended Miss Tennant and arranged our introduction. MAUREEN CONNOLLY San Diego...
Some Americans, he added, with a curt nod in the direction of some of his fellow Republicans, would "live within the United States and forget the miserable world . . ." Said Dewey: "I want allies, and I don't care what kind of allies they are so long as they fight on our side...
Based on a 1933 German movie by Curt Goetz called Dr. Praetorius, People goes fairly deep for Hollywood into such questions as witch hunts, illegitimate babies, medical ethics and income-tax exemptions. Mankiewicz gets a full measure of help from his cast, each of whom has at least one big scene to put his teeth into. Gary Grant, whether being intimidated by a collie or bearding a board of examiners, plays to perfection the man who refuses to worry about anyone's opinion but his own. In the difficult role of a girl who keeps falling...
...last week, Captain Rickover's task was a lot nearer completion than either the Navy or the tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission would admit officially. The Pentagon released a curt, one-sentence statement saying that it had awarded a contract for an atomic sub to the Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn. "From now on," said an AEC director, "you can gauge our progress by the increase in vagueness of our reports...
After his brush with Moscatelli, Holohan resolved to order no more arms drops until he was quite sure into whose hands they would fall. Icardi disagreed with this cautious policy, and the issue sharpened a growing conflict between the two men. Holohan, cold and curt, puttered around the villa. Icardi, dashing and adventurous, liked to get around the countryside, turn up at bars and dances. Holohan insisted that the mission follow orders to wear U.S. uniforms, so that if captured they could not legally be executed as spies...