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...decline of the Tribune's once-excellent foreign service may also be charged directly to the Colonel. When Tribune Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror) predicted that the Russian-German Pact would give Russia Bessarabia he got the ax thus...
...what amounted to an international city room, with ex-New York Herald Tribune Foreign News Editor Joseph Barnes at the desk. From the wire services-and from Washington's suggestions-Editor Barnes picked items of interest, tossed them to six key writer-researchers of such caliber as Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror). Pointed or amplified, the items went next door to Stan Richardson's office. Richardson, checking for both State Department and industry, put them on a private teletype wire to receivers in each short-wave news room. Sample item...
...casualties. Mourners were seen in uncommon numbers. Presently the French police realized that these widows' weeds, this ostentatious grief were deliberate weapons in the Nazi war of nerves. Finally, nervously, the police arrested some, found, sure enough, they were professional mourners, not going to any funeral. Said Edmond Taylor, in The Strategy of Terror: they had been hired "to travel around in public conveyances wearing deep mourning and giving an exaggerated exhibition of seemingly uncontrollable grief for the purpose of depressing public morale...
...lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role of the dean who for forty years played appeaser to the stadium-building alumni. Only Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short...
Best that can be said for Parachute's hackneyed story of how the Army made parachutists out of a feuding hillbilly (Buddy Ebsen), a colonel's son who thought himself yellow (Edmond O'Brien) and an amorous football hero (Robert Preston) is that the picture survives the plot's monkeyshines. Better left unmentioned is RKO's error in making its football chutist an All-American from Harvard, a university which has not turned out a bona fide All-American in nine years...