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...There is no use in a fox terrier's trying to kick an elephant's teeth out. Any man would be a plain damn fool to come into Kansas City and try to fight the Star. We intend to be the second paper, but we intend to be a profitable second paper...
Author Koeves is constantly torn between his desire to prove that Papen is a fool and his demonstration that he is satanically clever. To Author Koeves Franz von Papen may sometimes seem stupid. But to himself Franz von Papen must seem quite a success-at least as successful as the Abbe Sieyes, who, when asked: "What did you do in the French Revolution?," replied: "I survived...
Like many people who fool easily, Thyssen was capable of huge indignation when he found he had been fooled. He protested the Blood Purge of 1934, the persecution of Catholic and Protestant clergymen, the Jewish pogrom of 1938. The Nazis got tired of his protests. Thyssen was wise enough to leave Austria for Switzerland when Germany invaded Poland. He protested the invasion, the "illegal" confiscation of his property in Germany, the fact that no cause had been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter...
...title of "This Woman Is Mine" fool you. It isn't the passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point...
...comers, fought 20 times in four years, was never accused of a fixed fight, an unfair punch, a disparaging comment. "I want to fight honest," he has often told newsmen, "so that the next colored boy can get the same kinda break I got. If I 'cut the fool,' I'll let my people down...