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...Coming as and when it did, Whittaker Chambers' sacrifice had an incalculable value -if only to set the record straight for some of our "highschool liberals" that have been rampant since 1932. Never did any man write with such righteous lucidity. Fie on those who would measure his abasement in dollars & cents...
...film's worst drawbacks: Fredric March in the key role. Trying to convey Willy's shambling desperation, March never shakes off the appearance of an actor calculatedly playing a part; sometimes, in slurred speech and maudlin gestures, his calculation is so wide of the mark that fie seems to be trying to play a drunk...
...Fie on TIME for snapping Lieut. Colonel Thayer's girdle. It reassures our confidence in leadership to see the Air Force so effectively buttress itself. Social champagne commissionings in the Pentagon boost the morale of the guys in Korea, especially anybody with less rank than lieutenant colonel . . . Best of all, this is swell strategy: when that company of fighting Chinese Communist females find out, they'll vamoose, fearing a barrage of empty champagne bottles from the "colonel's" plane...
When the October 8 to 18 issues of the CRIMSON reached me on the same day (fie on the circulated department!) I read all of them with my usual avid interest. In the issue of October 8 was a feature story on The Dana Palmer House, written by Maxwell E. Foster, Jr., and I thought rather brightly...
...Fie on TIME for being so provincial as to base its year-end report on the state of the cinema almost entirely on the opinions of the New York critics: "Most film critics announced their lists of 'ten best'-and, in view of its wealth and its energy, Hollywood had made a miserably poor showing" [TIME...