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...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
...imposed for the sole benefit of Page-Hersey Tubes, Ltd., of Welland...
...even smelled of politics. Welland, site of the Page-Hersey factory, is a politically important riding represented in Parliament by Canada's Labor Minister, bumptious Humphrey Mitchell...
...Bell for Adano (20th Century-Fox) has a crack in it. Thanks to Hollywood's passionate desire to please practically everybody, this third telling of John Hersey's story fails to achieve the honest anger of the novel. It also lacks the resourcefulness and verisimilitude of the play...
More to the point, because it was calmly sensible, was a joint statement by 16 foreign correspondents who have covered Russia at war, including Quentin Reynolds, John Hersey, Edgar Snow, Edmund Stevens. Said the 16: "None of us is satisfied with the limited facilities extended to reporters by the Soviet Government, and none denies the truth of certain statements in Mr. White's book [but] for the totality of its effect . . . we feel it contains far too many inaccuracies ... a highly biased and misleading report." Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White...