Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren G. Miller 3L, president of the Legal Aid Bureau, emphasizes that the Harvard organization is, as far as he knows, the only one in America in which students can actually present their cases before the courts. "We find we get along pretty well with the courts around here," Miller said...
Fortunately the acting often injects dramatic stature into the story. Especially Edward G. Robinson, as the manufacturer, adds an element of power. Tormented by growing old, he evokes considerable interest and even compassion in his fight for a relationship and a life that even he himself is not sure will work out. Robinson can also stalk in and out of an overcoat with a gusto that dwarfs almost any action that anyone else performs on stage, partly because his better supporting actors have rather inactive roles...
Knowland's high standing among California's Republican regulars gives him a leg up in the June primary over Goodie Knight. But Knowland might well have a tougher time against his likely Democratic opponent, Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who has the advantage of California's larger Democratic registration, is running ahead of Knowland in informal polls, and would doubtless get help from some unhappy Knight Republicans...
...legal issue hinges on the U.S. charge that General Aniline's parent, Interhandel, was really a front for Nazi Germany's I. G. Farben. But Swiss-based Interhandel and 1,500 of its stockholders proclaimed that they were not German-controlled; in a maze of litigation they tied up persistent U.S. attempts to sell off General Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking...
Quite apart from Kay Kendall, Les Girls is a fine musical comedy-easily the best that Hollywood has put together since An American in Paris and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (also M-G-M productions). The picture has only a second-drawer score by Cole Porter, but Director George Cukor has shrewdly managed to make the least of it, and to make the most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have...