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...dive" I chuckled over (TIME'S naiveté) was Al Sarena's mining of timber-but best expressed by Congresswoman Edith Green's quatrain...
Black-Market Deals. Before the sentence was carried out, a shapely blonde show girl who signed herself Mrs. Edith Dahl wrote a poignant letter to General Francisco Franco, pleading for her husband's pardon and thoughtfully enclosed a fetching photograph of herself. Although it was later denied that Franco ever saw Edith's picture, a letter came back bearing the rebel leader's signature, with the courtly, old-fashioned Spanish salutation q.b.s.p. ("I kiss your feet"), and promising to spare Dahl's life...
Like many another U.S. flyer, Dahl headed for Canada early in World War II to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a squadron leader (equals U.S. major) and married a Canadian girl, belatedly explaining that his marriage to wife Edith had never been exactly solemnized, from a legal point of view. Before the war ended, Whitey was in trouble again, charged with selling government pistols, compasses, lamps and radios on the black market while in command of a station in Brazil. He got off with no penalty but a discharge...
...victorious, at least impressive performers. Most of them are very skilled in delivering their lines clearly and without resorting to declamation. Edward O'Callahan, as the engineer, turns in the best performance giving his role considerable power and intensity. John Peters is appropriately pompous as Banderia, the promoter, while Edith Owen plays Marcia, Bandeira's "friend," with an acute feeling for the quiet sadness which the role demands. Gregory Lafayette skillfully keeps the rather intense college student from becoming annoying. The production also gains much from the direction of Edward Thommen, who shows real talent in making the theater...
Days at the Races. In Los Angeles, granted a divorce after she testified that her estranged husband neglected his family by spending so much time and money on his five cars (a 1924 Maxwell, a custom-built Pinard, a 1952 Willys, a 1953 Morgan, a 1954 Packard), Mrs. Edith Thompson moaned in court: "Your Honor, I'm a sports-car widow...