Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet commands neither Private Papageorgiou nor any other Greek soldier. His job is to give advice and to supervise the flow of U.S. arms and supplies (nearly $300,000,000 had been authorized by December 1948) to their army. But he has given the Greeks a great deal more than that. He has given them hope...
...hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
...Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis' [picture] will prove the subject of a good deal of speculation...
...bright young Northwestern-trained lawyer, Stu Ball went to Ward's at 28, after five years of private practice. Quick to catch on, he was named assistant secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction...
Lady pictures the how of a gambler's obsession with a good deal of plausibility. Especially skillful are Barbara Stanwyck's hard-breathing, glitter-eyed performance at the gaming tables, and Russell Metty's feverish camera work in & out of the neon-lighted dens of Las Vegas. The story gets added strength from Stephen McNally's interpretation of a gambler who, for once, appears to be an intelligent character...