Word: halls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...
...midnight Boykin's guests had drunk, eaten and spoken their fill. Boykin happily picked up the tab-about $16,000 -and shook his big head in wonderment. "Think of it, by God," he thundered. "Over a billion people represented right here in one hall. I doubt if there's ever been anything like...
...Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...their elaborate efforts to provide a worthy council hall, the French finally abandoned their plan of installing a marble copy of the Medici Venus directly above the speaker's rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly robed Minerva. That was perhaps symbolic. The Council would not succeed through love; if it accomplished anything, it would do so in the ways of Minerva, a hardheaded and practical woman...
Much of the picture's force comes from its flat-and often flatfooted-insistence on telling the story straight. Its dirty children, dilapidated porches and stuffy hall bedrooms are authentically grimy; its dialogue often catches the nagging overtones of everyday frustration and defeat. But its brightest achievement is the fresh, engaging and often stirring performances of its two young principals, both newcomers to the screen. Sally Forrest, though she often recalls Producer Lupine's own lush style of acting, has range and depth. So has Keefe Brasselle, who looks something like a lankier Montgomery Clift. For a movie...