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...film's contrived script hits its characters with virtually everything that the Korean War can inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
...March 28, 1949). But Antivivisectionist Hearst, whose fees helped pay for the project, was never told. *For producing, directing and starring in the motion picture of the same name, a satire on the life of The Chief, Orson Welles suffered the nearest thing to excommunication that Mr. Hearst could inflict. For years the offending genius could not be mentioned at all in Hearst-papers...
...length and in Technicolor, the film shows that sororities have their points, e.g., a cozy sense of belonging, but none to offset the hurt they inflict on the girls they turn down, or to justify the snobbish values they set up. It pictures the societies through the bright eyes of Freshman Jeanne Grain, who comes to a Midwestern university all atwitter to join Upsilon Upsilon Upsilon...
...question of fact-whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff had or had not supported Douglas MacArthur's proposals for Korea. The basic military dispute was whether to widen the war against China. Would widening it win it? Would it bring World War III with Soviet Russia? Would it inflict a defeat that Russia couldn't counter? Finally there was a question of leadership in the comity of nations. Said Douglas MacArthur, who had shaped his life to the principle: lead, the rest will follow you. Cautioned Harry Truman, in his fashion and tradition: win friends, and hang...
...Little Force, Too Little Faith. How would Gandhi have reacted to the Korean situation? He would certainly not have behaved as Nehru has. For Gandhi never turned away from evil or denied its existence. He fought evil in his own way, which was essentially to suffer rather than to inflict suffering, to die by the sword rather than to kill with the sword. Gandhi did not believe in unresisting meekness but in non-violent resistance ("A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier is not particularly nonviolent...