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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCloy will have to negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn upon whether they can be made a democratic, peace-loving people...
Perhaps the greatest performance in the series was Edwin Gourdin's world record-breaking broad jump of 25 feet, 3 inches at the Stadium in 1921. Gourdin, a Harvard senior, thus became the first man in history to jump 25 feet. That mark still stands as the meet and Harvard record...
...Johnson announced his retirement in 1950, they had been murmuring such names as Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior, even Billy Rose as his successor. The New York Times's highbrow Olin Downes suggested that some people would consider it "time an American were appointed to head America's greatest operatic institution." The nobrow Daily News fired off an editorial: "Fair Shake for American Talent...
Danny, the toomler* who came out of New York's borsch circuit to become a top Broadway and Hollywood comic, was riding his greatest triumph: he was the U.S. traveling salesman who had won the heart of Britannia. It was not just an entertainer's hit; visiting Americans thought that he had been funnier before. By simply being his uninhibited self, he somehow embodied for Britons all that was likable about the U.S., and all that was reassuring to grey socialist Britain...
Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...