Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal character in the story, was deputy police commissioner during wartime in a tiny, fetid port on Africa's west coast. He seemed like a dull, plodding Briton; he was also a serious Catholic. Something happened to his integrity: he betrayed his professional honor, his wife, his best friend, and finally his God. At the end he decided that the only way out was suicide...
...rounded up musicians from Mexico City dance halls, movie theaters and churches to form Mexico's first symphony orchestra, made the classics almost as well known as La Cucaracha. Following his lead, four more orchestras started up in the provinces. Chávez' troubles began when his friend President Miguel Alemán asked him to help set up an Institute of Fine Arts to direct Mexico's music, art and theater...
...readers from cradle to grave, enrolls them in its "Toddlers' Club" as infants, gives free golden wedding parties for them in their old age. It counsels its readers, consoles them and fights their civic battles so well that, like Reader Harriger, they regard it as an old friend rather than a commercial enterprise...
...Conrad Janis) of hazing beyond the line of duty, and of lying to bring about the plebe's expulsion. As the story unravels in flashbacks, things look pretty black for the hero. Before he came to West Point he fought in World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed). But by the time the picture ends it is clear that Ladd never funked for an instant, handed out no more bullying at West Point than...
...honesties which no tongue dares to utter. Leo G. Carroll plays Nemesis so well as to make one wish he'd get a chance to play something else. And Geraldine Fitzgerald, who is seen much too seldom, does a fresh and welcome job as the pathetic, unstable old friend whom Miss Todd reluctantly exploits...