Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the passengers: an idealistic doctor (Joseph Cotten) on a mission for the U.N.'s World Health Organization, a somewhat shopworn adventuress (Corinne Calvet), a Roman Catholic priest (Edmund Gwenn), an arrogant Chinese Communist journalist, an oily war lord (Marvin Miller), who plays ball with the Reds while enriching himself on the black market in U.N. medical supplies, and his estranged wife, a Nationalist sympathizer...
While Cotten busily talks up the virtues of democracy, War Lord Miller stabs his wife, orders his uniformed bandits to stop the train and seize the passengers as hostages, shoots stray characters in the back, tortures the journalist with a hot iron, and earmarks Corinne for what was regarded in some circles, back in the days when this plot was young, as the fate worse than death. In the carnage that rights these wrongs, Peking Express seems to prove only that human life in this type of melodrama is almost as cheap as in China itself...
Plenty of writers have moaned about the creative years stolen from them by war service. For Novelist Monsarrat, as for his character Lockhart, "they were not lost years . . . He had grown up fast in the meantime, he was a different person from the . . . not very good journalist who had joined up in 1939 . . . He had missed five years of writing and travel, but he had gained in every other way . . . 'I should be all right after the war,' he told himself...
...Price of Freedom. Canadian Journalist Lawrence Earl retells H.M.S. Amethyst's story (TIME, May 2, Aug. 8, 1949) with measured understatement. But what he learned from the 36 men & officers he interviewed is stitched into a record of human toughness and devotion that defeats even a dead-pan style. Some 80 officers and men were ordered ashore from the Amethyst, got to the Nationalist side and made it to Shanghai. It was those who remained aboard through the grim summer days who were finally to taste the excitement of the Amethyst's escape...
Cause & Effect. Once she understood and accepted this current of subconscious causes and effects, her feelings of fear and guilt were relieved and her self-inflicted sinus inflammation began to clear. When practically everything had been dragged up and exposed to candid consideration, Journalist Freeman felt that she had gotten over her fear of the night, her mad rush to keep busy, her stomachaches, headaches and constipation...