Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman," said one alumnus. "He was a priest for the Catholics, a rabbi for the Jews...
Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...
...When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than a third of it from Ohio manufacturers. The city decided to give it the contract...
...Bribe, dame and dilemma are beautifully embodied (but hardly acted) by Ava Gardner, wife of a derelict U.S. flyer (John Hodiak). When not hung over from bad rum and alleged combat fatigue, Hodiak is busy smuggling airplane engines to Central America with the help of a suave mastermind (Vincent Price) and a broken-down fingerman (Charles Laughton). Fed-Man Taylor finally convinces himself, with some hard-breathing monologuing, that Ava is innocent but deeply implicated. So why not sell out on his job and collect on his love-as well as on Laughton's $12,000 in hush money...
...Snake Pit. Hollywood's hard, honest look at mental illness, with a chillingly good performance by Olivia de Havilland (TIME...