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...spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...Eugene Atget. He trudged its boulevards and back alleys, aiming his antique box camera at the sidewalks, the rooftops, the chestnut trees, the shop windows and the people. Passers-by suspected him of being a lunatic or even a spy. Artier photographers ridiculed him as a crackpot and tasteless hack. Among the few to appreciate his work as time went by was U.S. Photographer Berenice Abbott...
...over to France that he can feel like an Englishman. An ardent Roman Catholic, he has treated the Church of England not as a holy keystone of British tradition but as a disastrous heresy. And finally, while he has pleased the British by insisting that he is a mere "hack," he has shocked them by describing literature as a "stinking trade" and declaring...
...intends to shoot, a red-nosed reindeer with, deep down in him, a bit of the wolf. British Actor Alan (The Winslow Boy) Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows increasingly harried and hack. And though David Niven does a nice job as the lover, Ratoff brings hobnail direction to scenes that need dancing pumps. Actress Swanson, in an all-things-to-both-men role, is of no help whatever to either...