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Architecturally-viewed at any angle from the outside, Eliot looks like the product of an insane designer. No two walls seem to meet at right angles; walls curve; and wings jut out in several directions...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...rises above its own cinematic faults. The River is designed more like a novel than a movie. A narrator introduces the characters in turn, explains their backgrounds and personalities. For almost half the film's length, the actors exchange only snatches of dialogue that jut abruptly into the narration. Both camera and narrator are always veering off to scenes of native customs, which, however beautifully composed, further slow down an already leisurely story. Yet The River gradually unfolds a mood-filled pattern that holds all the strands in place...
...ailing President Enrique Hertzog in May 1949, elegant Mamerto Urriolagoitia had had his hands so full of strikes, plots and uprisings that he could make little progress in dealing with Bolivia's economic ills. Desperate for a remedy, Bolivians went to the polls three weeks ago and all jut elected exiled Presidential Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader in absentia of the Movement of National Revolution. Despite the M.N.R.'s old record of Nazi-style violence, Paz Estenssoro won a clear plurality (45% of the total vote) over the runner-up government candidate, Gabriel Gosálvez. The government...
When 33-year-old Paul A. Wagner took over as president of Rollins College (enrollment 630) in 1949, faculty men noted the cut of his jut jaw, decided he would make things spin on the experiment-minded campus at Winter Park, Fla. A recent executive of Chicago's camera-building Bell & Howell Co., Wagner (University of Chicago, '38) was full of ideas about using the new audio-visual teaching devices developed by the armed forces in World War II. Said he: "If our teachers intend to compete with movies, television and comic books, they will have...