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...Yalu, testified General Mark Clark, "we should have indicated that we were at war with Red China." Attacking Manchurian bases, however, might have triggered a world war. "It might have," said Clark, with Joy concurring. "I do not think it would have...I do not think you can drag the Soviets into a world war except at a time and place of their own choosing. They have been doiqg^too well in the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Remember Korea | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured jollity pervades the film. The cockles of the heart warm perceptibly when Lancaster's vicious cut-throats drag a group of innocent children into a building as hostages...

Author: By John A. Porz, | Title: Vera Cruz | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent guinea pig for the medicos. Unfortunately the play itself had a tendency to drag between high moments and a habit of making its points over and over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Outside, newspaper headlines proclaimed the moment décisif. Long lines of Communist demonstrators stood stolidly in the fog and rain, and in distant capitals, statesmen kept anxious watch. Inside the Palais Bourbon, Premier Pierre Mendes-France wrestled grimly with the French Assembly, trying to drag France back into the ranks of the Atlantic Alliance from which these same Deputies had all but resigned the week before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reluctant Yes | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: There's No Business Like Show Business | 1/4/1955 | See Source »

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