Word: danae
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Also competing for forward positions and adding depth to the line are sophomores Dana Getchell and Pete Baker...
...testy old parish priest and the Roman Catholic Church itself. Obsessed with the idea of making up for his mother's death, he determines that the church must pay for a sumptuous funeral. When the priest balks, the truck driver murders him. Then a younger, understanding priest (Dana Andrews) and a detective (Robert Keith) stand by until the killer gives himself away and collapses into repentance...
Where the Sidewalk Ends (20th Century-Fox), a melodrama in monotone, reunites the team that made Laura: Producer-Director Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. The new picture makes Laura, one of 1944's best films, look better than ever. Andrews plays a tough Manhattan detective with a bad record for manhandling criminals. When he inadvertently kills one, he covers up his trail with false clues, and suspicion points to Gene Tierney's father. It takes no end of foolish talk and action for Andrews to square himself with the law and the girl...
Safely out of Czechoslovakia and the reach of the Communist Secret Police, who were about to arrest him on a trumped-up charge of espionage (TIME, June 19), Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt sat down to his typewriter in Vienna and began a new series of dispatches to the New York Times. Out of the range of Prague's Communist censors, he wrote at length and in detail. His dispatches, published in the Times last week, gave a sharp picture of the tragedy that enveloped Czechoslovakia 28 months ago when the Communists seized control...
...Times had no solution. Nor did newsmen have any solution to the problem of getting the news in the face of such censorship and of even harsher attempts to terrorize them. Fortnight ago, Czechoslovakia indicted able Times Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt (along with 20 other Westerners) for espionage and subversion. After dutifully filing a straight story to the Times on the charges (which he denied), Schmidt fled to the U.S. zone of Germany. That left only three regular Western correspondents in Prague, all of them exposed to the kind of attack that had forced able Reporter Schmidt to leave...