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...present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets human nature take its willful course...
...well acted, and the strands of its many characters and incidents are adroitly interwoven. But the screenplay is often on the super-melodramatic side. Subtitled The Secret Lives and Loves of a French Jury, the picture goes in for such farfetched plotting as having the defendant's lover (Michel Auclair) woo an elderly lady juror (Valentine Tessier) in order to win over her vote. And, even for courtroom drama, Justice Is Done is far too talky...
...Michel B. Greenebaum '55 was the first to receive the mineral in this form. He was served a single portion when he went to his afternoon meal in Kirkland House yesterday. Probing his macarout and hamburger mixture Greenebaum was surprised to discover the little body builder cleverly concealed amongst the move standardized feed...
...reality they know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...game finally ends when Paulette is taken away by the authorities. Michel, in a fury at his loss, destroys the little cemetery. Paulette, bereft and alone at a relocation center for war orphans, suddenly hears the name Michel spoken in the crowd, and wanders forlornly among a confusion of people in vain search of the one person she loves...