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This perhaps sounds like a standard Western plot. But is interesing portrayal of both Indians and fur trappers make The Big Sky quite a bit better than average. Kirk Douglas, in a role cast from the mold of James Fenimore Cooper's "Hawkeye," strikes a good balance between heroism and humor. And the leading lady is a real Indian...
...Germans (both times he managed to get away) and became Chaplain General of the Resistance. At the liberation of Paris, while German snipers were still firing inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he welcomed General de Gaulle into the church for a service of Thanksgiving. His wartime heroism was rewarded with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor...
...editor of Paris' debunking journal Crapouillot (the Trench Mortar) last December went so far as to suggest that Marthe herself could do with some reforming. Citing her own book My Life as a Spy, the editor suggested that Marthe's heroism in the underground had consisted largely of a lightning-love rendezvous with Baron Hans von Krohn, German naval attache in Madrid in 1915. "Captain," Marthe had told her superior when the proposition was put to her, "it is a sacrifice costlier than death." "The Service demands it," answered the captain. "Before this beautiful duty, your small moral...
Correspondent James Bell joined Gibney at the front at the end of July. Accompanying a Marine assault force in the Naktong area, Bell captured the horror and heroism of war in his story, The Battle of No Name Ridge (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). In September, Bell was a member of a team of five TIME Inc. reporters and photographers who covered the Inchon landings. Gibney had landed earlier on Wolmi Island, and watched the Inchon assault "about one city block away." Shortly afterward, Gibney returned to the U.S. and was replaced by Martin...
...opinion on the Hiss case will have difficulty in arriving at a critical decision about Whittaker Chambers' Witness. If they feel Hiss is innocent, they will consider the book hogwash. If they feel Hiss is guilty they will hail the book as a testament of faith, a saga of heroism, a magnificent tragedy, a seering political analysis, and a prophetic warning...