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Lastly, "the humanitarian goal of (the Zionist) organization" has not, as Wald claims, "been trampled underfoot in the headlong pursuit of a political state." Palestine has become the only hope for the more existence of millions of Jews, not to mention things like the dignity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...frightened. The photography, full of wind, rain and long night shadows, is moodily chilling. There are also some fair sets: a nightclub where much of the plot is unwound looks as small, grubby and unglamorous as most real nightclubs. The movie's chief faults: too little headlong action and too much head scratching about a mystery that is not very mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Dark Mirror (Universal-International) begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...fielder's choice in the third. He broke for second, and the blue-jacket catcher's throw was wide of the bag and rolled into center field. He continued on to third, and as the center fielder held the ball he kept going and scored with a headlong slide into home on a close play. He scored again in the seventh on the same play except this time the second baseman missed the peg, letting it trickle through his legs into short center. Johnny also stole second in the fifth inning and advanced to third on a passed ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Splashes Squantum, 7 to 5 | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

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