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...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...conception of the pathological Udo and on Richard Widmark's remarkable performance of the role. He is a rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes, who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs. It is clear that murder is one of the kindest things he is capable...
...people all over Europe do not know that we are the kindest, most generous, and most sympathetic people on the fact of the earth, no amount of silly broadcasting will enable them to realize these facts." Thus, in the House last week, cried rang-nosed Representative John Jennings, up from the hills of eastern Tennessee. The debate was over the State Department's budget, from which an appropriations subcommittee had shorn $31 million requested for the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs...
Friendly Firmness. There you have our problem in a nutshell. It is not an easy one. It is complicated by the fact that those who, like the Russian, do not want his worst traits pandered to by people in this country on whom the kindest comment would be that they were well-intentioned. On the other hand, intelligent and realistic people must not lose patience with the Russian too soon...
...Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...