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...real question remained: Had the West awakened too late? Western strategists had to lean on the hope that Russia would not dare to use her military advantage until she had more A-bombs to drop on the U.S. (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR). The strategists, who had understated Russian capabilities before, calculated that the West had approximately two years to finish the job which got under way this week high up in the Waldorf...
...Later, Pravda published a letter from Johnstone announcing his resignation, both as editor and as a British citizen, because of the anti-Soviet bias of British "warmongers." A few months later, Assistant Editor Robert Dagleish also resigned via a letter to Pravda and cast his lot with the Soviets. Lean, keen-eyed W. Richard Jones, assistant news editor of the London Daily Telegraph, went to Moscow as editor of Ally...
Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...
...Kathleen MacDonald had read a lot about the atom bomb, and it made her uneasy. Said she: "Being a widow, there's so little you can do [for protection]. It's different when you have a man to lean on." But one thing Widow MacDonald could do: build a bomb shelter for herself and her twelve-year...
Professor Mario Attilio Levi, a lean, walrus-mustached scholar of 60, is well known in Italy as an authority on Dante; among his colleagues he is also known to be a trifle absentminded. Riding home on a streetcar to his apartment in Rome that hot July day in 1948, he was as usual too engrossed in a book to keep close watch on his packages. But when he got to his stop and missed them, Professor Levi raised a fervent alarm...