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Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
When generals (or politicians) run out of ideas on how to win a fight, they are apt to lean heavily on the hope that the enemy will collapse from some weakness in his own ranks. U.S. foreign policy strategists comfort themselves with just such a hope. Secretary of State Dean Acheson has called Tito's defection from Moscow the most hopeful development in the battle between Russia and the West; what is implied is that Yugoslavia's Tito-and future Titos elsewhere-may do the U.S.'s job of defeating Communism. U.S. policymakers particularly cherish the notion...
...piece models as well. Loose-fitting and comfortable, B.V.D.s were a sensational improvement over old-fashioned bulky underwear. Plugged by its catchy slogan, "Next to myself, I like B.V.D. best," sales hit an estimated peak of 7,200,000 pairs a year in the mid-'20s. The lean & lissome males in B.V.D. ads (see cut) became as familiar as the Arrow Collar...
...largest lecture room was once a subway car barn, its campus is still the city streets, its study halls are still the handiest park benches. Yet in three lean years, the Free University of Berlin has grown into a vigorous symbol of academic liberty. While its famed pre-Nazi counterpart, in the East sector of Berlin, withers and dies from an overdose of Communist dialectic, the Free University may well become the birthplace of a more widespread liberal education than Germany has ever before attained. Last week the young institution got a generous gift of the one thing it needed...
...Once, in a moment of high spirits, he dispelled all the misery in the immediate vicinity by bursting out of his studio dressing room, clad only in an athletic supporter, and raced hilariously around the set, while girls fled in all directions. Though Mario's literary preferences lean to body-building and movie-fan magazines, his uninhibited zest for startling pranks sometimes seems inspired by the gustier tales of Chaucer...