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...weeks ago, when Kaiser reluctantly called a ten-day shutdown of its auto assembly lines in order to work off a prohibitively large backlog of unsold cars, hundreds of workers seized 50 supervisors, locked them in a paint shop, and held them hostage until local Kaiser Boss James McCloud agreed to keep the plant in operation...
...spirit of the Salem witch-hunt haunts Washington again. Sarah McClendon's labeling of William A. Wieland and J. Clayton Miller, two State Department aides, as security risks, has aroused a storm of rumors and accusations which remind one of the days of McCarthy and McCloud. Although the President instantly rebuked Mrs. McClendon for her defamatory reference, her cry was soon taken up by Senator Olin D. Johnston (Dem. S.C.) and various House Republicans, whose opinions are presented in a recent issue of National Review. If such statements continue unchecked, Wieland's career may be ruined...
Ghosts of the '20s. Huston and Co-Writer Richard Brooks have updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour...
...first, McCloud takes no risks. The war has left him too drained and cynical for acts of courage. But as one outrage after another teaches him what these characters are really made of-they are of a piece with all he used to fight-and how confident they seem of returning to power in his country, McCloud changes. Loathing, rage and his very fear of them force him to heroic action, and restore his leverage on living...
...part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...