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...rusty armor and re-entered the lists as an independent. Since Impy got to City Hall in the first place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality without so much as pinking a dragon...
...angry newsmen were herded about by police, fenced in by red-tape, kept from all but the dreariest routine reporting. For example, just before the official state dinner at Ottawa, a press officer met the assembled correspondents and held up three red tickets. That was all there would be for the dinner, one each for a Canadian, an American and a British reporter. The chosen correspondents would have to wear white ties, and would get no dinner. Shouted the angry reporters: "Send the tickets back." None went...
...something happens to the comedy between the first and second acts. The last two-thirds of the play contains some of the dreariest, and generally unfunniest talk imaginable. Every once in a while a funny line comes along, but the dullness of the rest of the dialogue is stupefying. Miss Bel Geddes' lines consist of a string of incredibly stupid questions, each of which exasperates Mr. Nelson anew. This is something short of rippling dialogue...
...this chatter about interplanetary travel began to irritate Novelist-Columnist J. B. Priestley, who wrote in the London News Chronicle: "The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please...
...awesome spectacle-a Briton in a rage. For almost a year Ernest Bevin's voice had been subdued; illness had weakened him, and the protracted Palestine struggle, in which he often found himself at odds with Washington, had embittered him. He has made some of the dreariest speeches in the 700-year history of the House of Commons. Last week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above its fears. He was the same Bevin who, as labor leader...