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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before his congressional questioners Douglas Mac Arthur said: "The greatest political mistake we have made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow to power in China ... I believe we will pay for it, for a century." MacArthur did not explore in detail the how & why of the great error. That task is undertaken in an angry, hardhitting book published last week-The China Story, by Freda Utley (Henry Regnery Co.; $3.50)-A British-born, U.S.-naturalized ex-Communist whose Russian husband vanished in the Soviet purges of the 30's, Author Utley...
Never before in the history of modern parliaments had there been an examination of fundamentals so painstakingly searching in detail, so sweeping in scale. Military tactics and grand strategy, global diplomacy and the course of a great world struggle were the subjects. In a marble-paneled, high-ceilinged room, where every word was weighed for its value to an enemy, 25 Senators met to hear a five-star debate on the nation's destiny...
...proposals," said Douglas MacArthur, "stand the best chance that is possible of ending this war in the quickest time and with the least cost in blood." Under the Senators' questioning, he spelled it out in careful detail-the blockade and bombing of China, the "unleashing" of Chiang Kai-shek's forces, the conviction that a U.S. ground invasion of the China mainland would be unnecessary and wrong...
Oliver Twist is long (1 hr. 45 min.) and rich enough to spare the cuts. Directed by David Lean and produced by Ronald Neame, the British team responsible for 1947's superb Great Expectations, the movie recreates the novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths...
...Adams House concert is a Perry production in every detail, from finding the scores to printing the programs. His energy has been consistently amazing; his enthusiasm has been shared by his performers and his audiences even when the results have not been completely smooth...