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From the viewpoint of practical Washington politics, it is paradoxical that reciprocal trade agreements are signed with Czechoslovakia that put Czech shoes in competition with Massachusetts shoes, while this same type economic fillip is denied a country linked to the U. S. by tradition and two wars. As the log-rolling proceeds, Congress is unwilling to sour the sugar-beet bloc, but is perfectly willing to pat an infant-nation on the head and set it loose with one foot tied. The Bell Bill tariff exemption must be extended indefinitely lest the Philippine experiment, pride of this country's colonial...
...elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...
...last week, its symbolic side had lost its urgency. What remained most provocative was its experimental side-the changes Anouilh had made in Sophocles' story, the slangy prose he had often substituted for austere poetry, the modern flourishes (card playing, automobiles) and modern dress. They gave a mild fillip to a classic story, but they did not make for an effective play. This Antigone, barring its one big clash between despot and defier, was flat, fumbly theater. This Antigone, shorn of her Resistance aura, was unmoving and unreal. And in a modernish setting, the burial issue on which...
...Hathaway-Monks approach to a purely fictional drama somehow suggests that the people on the screen are real and just happen to have been caught by a fortuitous camera. Actually, some of the film's G-men are the real McCoy. The picture serves up, as an added fillip, real FBI shots of pre-Pearl Harbor traffic in & out of the German Embassy...
...Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking in "obscene" literature. Thus last week DeVoto, out to expose Boston's behind-the-counter prudery, forced a test case on the ban. As an unscheduled fillip to these negotiations, a copy of John Wilder May's Law of Crimes (438 pp.) tumbled off the bookseller's shelf, crowned one of the cops...