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...Washington, replacing Ambassador Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, went Humphrey Hume Wrong* (he eschews the "Humphrey"), who has been called "about the closest thing to an aristocrat Canada is capable of producing...
...tall, slim, lofty-browed scholar, Hume Wrong was born in Toronto 52 years ago, was brought up by his historian-father George Wrong in the British tradition. He studied at the University of Toronto and Oxford, served in the British Army in World War I (the Canadians rejected him because of a childhood injury to his left eye), then taught modern history at Toronto for six years before joining the Department of External Affairs (U.S. equivalent: State Department) in 1927. He had served in Washington, Geneva and London before becoming Associate Under Secretary in Ottawa...
...clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner and Garfield out of their first major jam, give excellent performances...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
Soon "Sunlight" was shining around the world, and the grocer's son was a peer, Lord Leverhulme (pronounced leave-er-hume), Viscount of the Western Isles. By the time brusque, autocratic, globetrotting Lord Leverhulme † died in 1925, his mercantile empire was well on its way to preeminence. By last week it had few equals anywhere in size, prosperity, diversity and complexity...