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...soundstage floor during a bit of jujitsu; Cinemactor Frank Faylen, whom she knocked out with a right to the jaw when the director demanded realism; Eddie Bracken, who, in a saloon scene, caught a Hutton slap on the back that looped him over the bar and into a heap on the other side. "When they work with me," crows Betty, "they gotta get insurance policies...
...Professor & the Dump Heap. When the headlines fade away, it will probably be clear that Professor Owen Lattimore (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is neither a Russian spy nor a Communist, and that his accuser, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is an irresponsible demagogue. But the fact that Lattimore is no Soviet agent does not clear him of having had, in less dramatic ways, a disastrous influence on the foreign policy of his country...
Stalin opened his letter with the same limping apologies that non-Marxist non-dictators resort to. "Dear Alexei, Maximovich!-A heap of excuses and a plea that you won't abuse me for my late (too late!) answer. Besides that, I was a bit sick. This, of course, cannot excuse me. But it explains...
Siam's virtues and defects were still largely its own, not a bastard product of two civilizations. Phumiphon's never-never land was a land of what-might-have-been, a jewel of (almost) unblemished Easternism shining on the junk heap of the wrecked empires. Like a jewel, Siam was temptingly easy to pick up. The Communist imperialists who had taken China might turn Siam's way any time...
After her Apollo visit, Ella was heading downtown for her annual three-week session at the Paramount (at $3,250 a week), then out to the West Coast. Still at the top of the heap, Ella has a simple explanation for her success: "People like...