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...Blue Book blast at Perón had apparently had little effect on the voting. Argentines, resentful of previous advice from abroad, did not welcome the latest installment with vivas. But neither did they let Perón use it as a red herring. The chief issue remained Perón's fitness to be President...
...Shoving and pushing, and pushed and shoved, a dishonoured bag of bones about London, or carted like a herring in a box through tunnels in the clay beneath it, as I bump my head in an omnibus, or hang, half-suffocated, from a greasy strap in the Underground, I dream, like other Idealists and Saints and Social Thinkers, of a better world than this, a world that might be, a City of Heaven brought down at last to earth...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
Died. Clyde LaVerne Herring, 66, onetime Iowa Governor (1932-1936) and New Dealing U.S. Senator (1937-1942); of a heart ailment; in Washington. Periodically startled by what he heard on the radio (Mae West, Boris Karloff...
...that doesn't happen nearly often enough. Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race. The picture lacks, overall, a sense of what to emphasize and what to relax about - notably in its failure to make you constantly feel, or see enough of, the cavernous menace of the empty, busy house next door. There are, however, some flashes of really frightening evil in young Richard Lyon, and Gail Russell has a gift for conveying the shyly...