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...League's Assembly was almost certain to meet concurrently in London. A committee would be named to negotiate the League's demise. An active pallbearer would be Secretary General Sean Lester, whose Irish charm might do much to salvage bits of the League. Later another meeting would be held in Geneva to release members from the Covenant...
Period! In Cleveland, Robert Harris faced the court for sentence on a drunken driving charge, fainted dead away when he heard, "$100 and costs, to be executed by July 2." Carried Away. In Chicago, Lester Bel grade stood in line two hours for two steaks and entrusted the package to his trained cocker spaniel, a faithful package-bearer for the past five years. Next day he was still waiting anxiously for the missing dog to come home...
Spark plugs of FAO in its birthing period were Canada's able Ambassador to Washington, Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, and jolly, pipe-smoking Frank Lidgett McDougall, an Australian often called "the father of nutrition" because of his long efforts to make that study a science. McDougall incessantly deplores economic nationalism, is determined to do his best to internationalize eating...
...Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, diplomatically adroit Canadian Ambassador...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...