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...West is dealing with too many rightist governments even now--a fact that gives the Communists excellent propaganda. And de Gaulle's leadership would be highly nationalist, to the detriment of Western cooperation on both economic and military planes...
...project is already under way, a promising intramural sports program. This has been absent in a great big way--to the indirect detriment of House athletics. The effects of a vigorous sports program in the Yard should show up next year in the Houses, when an athletically-minded '52 moves south...
...board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount of detriment...
...office, he was badly mistaken. Charlie Taft set his jaw, scribbled a few notes, rose to his feet and said: "Turning one's back is neither a characteristic of my own nor, I hope, of the Charter Committee. ... It has been my conviction for some time that one detriment to my brother's candidacy is the total inadequacy of his home-town Republican organization in its contribution to good government. . . . What I may be able to do in these coming months at the city hall may perhaps balance the damage...
...James Wong Howe's flaying ringside photography, was a boxing picture, close to perfect of its kind. Britain's Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger exported a casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half...