Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking a four-day (Friday to Tuesday) weekend at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt had more than the color of autumn leaves on his mind. He had to con his timetable and Adolf Hitler's. He could guess at Hitler's from the week's events. The U.S. could guess at the President's timetable from three items of news which told what time...
...Averell Harriman were men of all types but of one stripe: all were eagle-eyed, fact-minded men; some of them were first-rate U.S. production experts. One & all had a preconceived picture of Soviet Russia as a sorry, ignorant, grubby wasteland. The mission reported to the President at Hyde Park at the end of a week in which catastrophes approached. Instead of coming as expected messengers of disaster, they arrived as heralds of hope. Their collective prediction: Moscow will not fall...
...about gone are the days of Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and their good old-fashioned horror pictures. Occasionally one of them crops up again with a week-kneed off-shoot of Frankenstein, but every effort fails to recapture the mood. Originally, Stevenson's "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" was one of the standout pictures of this melodramatic school; in today's guise, it is merely another problem in psychology...
...famous dual personality without the help of more than a few pounds of make-up, and relies upon mugging and histrionics to do the rest. His is the case of a man trying to take some of the duties of the divine into his own hands. As Jekyll and Hyde, he proves his point about the portions of good and evil in the human system, but pays the supreme sacrifice for his presumption. With more than his ordinary zeal for a part, perhaps too much. Tracy nevertheless does a thoroughly good job. Lana Turner, as the love in his life...
Jenkins, seeded number three in this year's tourney, capitalized on his opponent's errors to win both sets by a score of 6-3. Hyde, who uses his extra height to advantage on the court with a deadly overhead game, could not cope with the extremely steady game and greater experience of his opponent...