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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigger Cake & Lingering Controls The clash between the young Tories and the "flannel group" is shown in Tory policy, as set out in convenient lack of detail for the election. Churchill himself is suspicious of new approaches to economic problems, and recently growled at a specialist: "You economic experts always make it sound so complicated. After all, it's only barter." (Deep and disgusted Churchillian accent on the last word.) In emphasis, the split among Tories is as sharp as it is between Attlee and Bevan. The young men, for example, want to attack monopolies immediately. There...
...Last month I was sitting in the bar of Beirut's St. Georges Hotel. Two American sergeants on leave were pretty drunk and holding forth at the top of their voices about how incredibly stupid Turks are at learning to use tanks. They illustrated their points with considerable detail. Two known Communist barkeepers got an earful, kept stiff drinks coming to the two loud Americans...
Crusty old George Bernard Shaw, who always insisted on approving every detail of his plays' productions, was even crankier when it came to the movies. His will provides that he be billed only as "Bernard Shaw." His trustees also decided that no more than 10% of Shaw's original lines may be changed for the screenplay...
...Lavender Hill Mob (Rank; Universal-International), a superior British-made thriller, is divided into almost equal parts of high comedy and farce. The first and best half of the film shows in loving detail how prim Alec Guinness, for 20 years a trusted employee of the Bank of England, steals $1,000,000 in gold bars and smuggles them to the Continent...
Keeping his camera at a respectful distance, Freeman has photographed Washington's 16 years of peace in such overwhelming and sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge, he writes with steam and fire. A bit pedestrian as a portraitist of character, Freeman handles military matters with rousing zest and precision...