Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things will go badly for anyone picked up for vandalism this weekend. Rumors of expulsion come from New Haven, and University officials have reiterated their statements that similar fate is in store for University students if they indulge in such pranke...
...Lindfors before she was imported to Hollywood by Warner Bros. Viveca gives great warmth to an otherwise chilly semidocumentary. Hasse Ekman, who helped write the screenplay, directed and played the lead, shrewdly explores the often depressing theme: the patients, feeling that they have been played a dirty trick, by fate, gradually transfer their resentments to the doctors and nurses who are trying to heal them...
Maybe it's fate. Maybe it's just plain bad luck. But Ken O'Donnell's injury last Saturday which cost the Crimson his services for the rest of the season keeps intact an injury voodoo that has hit every Harvard football captain for six of the last seven seasons...
...London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall. So is that of Robert Newton, a sinister cockney witness to the murder, who finally gets done in with a pair of scissors...
...even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a little embarrassed, were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...