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Gripping the prisoner's box in the crowded Boston courtroom, the thin, drawn defendant spoke haltingly in accented English to the twelve men who would decide his fate. "I have committed the sin of adultery with Mrs. Lynn Kauffman, and my wife has forgiven me of punishment," said Dutch Radio Operator Willem Van Rie, 31, accused of killing the Chicago divorcee and throwing her battered body into Boston harbor after a torrid, 44-day passage from Singapore aboard the freighter Utrecht (TIME, Oct. 12). "But I never kicked, or hit, or beat Mrs. Kauffman," said Van Rie, his voice...
...mass of evidence that the nation that leads the world in rocketry is still inspired by the romantic ideals of 19th century "servants' literature." The film also suggests that there has been some relaxation of the puritanical morality of the revolution: the heroine errs, but is forgiven at the fade. And there is even a mild suggestion that people in Russia sometimes get tired of the canned ideas they are continually fed-the party's production slogans and political cant ("Fascist beasts") come in for some sly kidding. So do the professional women, the emancipated amazons of Marxist...
Astronomer Gold will have to be careful. People still have not forgiven Darwin for proving that man descended from the lower animals. But men from garbage! In that case, we better watch our step exploring other planets. No telling what we'll start...
...holds the show in shape. When she is not, the suspense dissolves into a mess of sentimental pablum-hardly the dish a customer expects from Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty] Odets. Scriptwriter Odets here takes his first crack in 15 years at directing a picture, and perhaps should be forgiven some errors of inexperience. But seasoned Producer Jerry Wald might have done something about Actor Franciosa, an almost comically intense young man who reads every line as though it were his last. No such luck...
...jungle in time to fight a couple of spectacularly unconvincing battles, but pretty soon he was off to Allied headquarters, where he fought such a long-drawn-out legal engagement with Chiang Kai-shek and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that anybody who sees this picture may be forgiven a profound sigh of assent when one actor remarks: "You know, this war seems to go on forever...