Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though women have added a few feminine frills to the countinghouse, complete acceptance of women in the fusty man-world of banking is a long way off. (Even the San Francisco newspapers could not quite accept them; they covered A.B.W.'s doings on the society pages.) Sighed one A.B.W.-delegate last week: "They're learning to respect us-but they still snicker behind our backs...
Christopher Columbus (Rank; Universal-International) turns an exciting bit of history into a series of dull tableaux in antiqued color. Even ten-year-olds, at whom this British-made movie is plainly aimed, will find it about as thrilling as an afternoon spent looking at Christmas cards...
...Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps to cheer Winnie, Joe also predicted that Labor would never govern in England...
These feuds and intrigues enable Graves to pepper his Islands with a host of hearty swashbucklers and infamous trollops, both professional and amateur. But sometimes they become so involved that even Graves is obliged to pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before...
...last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...