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Russia's purges are traditionally grim affairs. The conspicuous difference between the current nationwide"houseclean-ing" and others is the sprightly (and skin-crawling) humor with which the tares of the malefactors have been exhibited in the Soviet press. Thus the toughest sentence is doubly justified, since the defendants have been proved not only criminal but ridiculous...
...Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...
...began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...
...know of no testing ground which can compare with an internment camp for bring ing out the true worth of any individual. I did not know "Uncle Don" before I was interned with him, but the two years I knew and worked with him in Santo Tomàs and Los Banos Internment Camps, he was a never-failing source of encouragement to me. He was a true friend to me when friends I had known for years wavered-so trusted by myself and my husband (then friend) that he was allowed to listen to our concealed receiver whenever...
Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith, travel ing with the unofficial U.S. food mission, arrived in India's malarial Karachi, within 24 hours was in a hospital with a 104° fever...