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...Vandenberg criticized U.N. for its self-inflicted title. (He would prefer UNO.) "Un what?" cried the distressed Senator. "It sounds like an emasculated affair. United Nations isn't that and can't be that. When you say, 'Un,' you haven't done anything but grunt." The Senator grunted...
...United Nations' press section made a modest request: would the papers please take the O out of UNO, which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...
...chuckles, nevertheless, are there. Mrs. Apley asserts that "Boston men are emotionally dependable they're trained that way," and many a bald pate flushes. "Boston's not a city--it's an environment," says George, and someone from the Chamber of Commerce lets out a grunt of approval...
...drenching rain. Some of the commentary in Attack is mawkishly "American," but most of it is as direct and unaffected as most of the shots. There are clearly some fine anonymous camera and sound men in the Signal Corps. The clanging iron gangways, the rattle of unloading, the grunt and nutter of motors struggling in the mud add much to 'Attack's power. And at the film's end the almost inaudible mutter of burial prayers gives a simple validity to the closing shot (an open grave) and to the line: "One day of American living-bought...
...Wassell is a big, bright, brassy, specious show in which Gary Cooper (as Dr. Wassell) goes through some highly Technicolored, highly ordinary motions, and every nurse in the picture (Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Carol Thurston) is a shinier pippin than the one before. Typical characterization: Dr. Cooper imitating the grunt of a razorback hog and murmuring, "Good gravy!" Typical set: a remote Chinese village as cute as Christmas and twice as cheerful. Typical nurse: a little native number named Three Martini (Carol Thurston), who keeps her nurse's dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos...