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...entire city. At least 25 people were injured stumbling through its gloom; King George VI had to cancel a trip to the theater-his first evening out since his operation three months ago; greyhound racing at the White City was abandoned because dogs couldn't see the hare; and a mallard duck flying blind over central London slammed into Victoria Station and crash-landed on No. 6 platform...
...clamor, the noise > that hurt Russia most came from Andrei Vishinsky himself. "His laugh," wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, "may have done more to undermine Russian peace propaganda than a whole battery of counterpropaganda . . . For nothing he said or will say to the assembled nations is so revealing and reverberating as that laugh. It goes echoing through the corridors of the U.N. . . . like the snicker of an evil spirit. Perhaps it will echo down the corridors of time. Lesser things than a laugh at the hopes and fears of humanity have brought down...
...style of his Silly Symphonies. Yet there is plenty to delight youngsters, and there are flashes of cartooning ingenuity that should appeal to grownups. Funniest sequence: the famed mad tea party, which proves rollicking, not out of fidelity to Carroll, but because the Mad Hatter and the March Hare are faithful to Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna, who speak the roles...
Indomitable Spirit. The strength of the nation lay in the fact that the U.S. economy, which had tripled in size since it was formally pronounced "mature" by New Deal hare-braintrusters in 1936, was still capable of gigantic growth. No one thought that it could grow big enough-or fast enough-in the next few years to pour out civilian goods at 1950's rate and also rearm the nation. But most economists and businessmen knew that, barring the sudden arrival of all-out war, it could grow fast enough to keep the standard of living close...
...Party scene from the new Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, scheduled for release late in 1951. Alice boasts the usual high level of Disney invention: Ed Wynn's voice is dubbed in for the Hatter, Jerry Colonna's strident accents for the March Hare...