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...priest who had brought Budenz home was Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Lean, dark and handsome Father Sheen is associate professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University. He is also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
French nuns and children sifted garbage against the lean chance of bits of food fit for children or nuns or pigs...
...titillated by the stage play. The film's plot is the same: British Novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) lives stylishly in the English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again...
Beside that ardently swelling literary bosom, the lean, taut, fidgety figure of the author of Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith might seem a little out of place and even a little out of date. For a decade Lewis had favored U.S. readers with a book almost every biennium, but his last important work had been done in the beginning of the '30s. If Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made...
...question of the week was: should France have a big, expensive army or a small, inexpensive one? Puffy-cheeked War Minister André Diethelm thought the army should be a whopper, chiefly as a matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly. Last week the Cabinet met in Paris, listened for five hours to the williwaw of conflicting opinions. The man who does France's bookkeeping finally...