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While trying to bring love, or at least marriage, into her clients' lives, Broker Ritter develops a motherly interest in flighty Model Jeanne Grain, decides to match her on the sly (and at no charge) with another acquaintance, X-ray Technician Scott Brady. Each of the pair misconstrues the other's motives, andThelma's as well. What should be plain to all is that Ingenue Grain needs an acting refresher course and able Comedienne Ritter deserves a better script...
...business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
...peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross and the crescent joined. When spectators began to applaud, the demonstrators shushed them into silence; the sound, reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, was a low hum like locusts in a field of grain. Overhead flew banners screaming "Get out, dirty English!" Posters showed British soldiers bayoneted through the throat. When the marchers came within hailing distance of the King's palace, the police swiftly and skillfully split them up, hustled them down the side streets...
...edge of the square cement platform on which Gandhi was cremated. Here five members of the government's planning commission, introduced by Nehru listened as Bhave argued for 1) village wells, instead of huge irrigation projects, 2) village industries, instead of mass factories, 3) increased grain production from small farms. After attending a meeting, India's ascetic President Rajendra Prasad announced that he had given his Bihar estate to Bhave. In the United Provinces, where Bhave's next walk will take him, landowners, without waiting for his arrival, had already promised him 500,000 acres...
People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz needles the medical profession in his latest comedy of U.S. manners & morals; with Gary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept...