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...Alben W. Barkley was busier than most brides. On a typical day she visited Capitol Hill to preside over a morning meeting of the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club, lunched briefly with Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Senator from Maryland, then dashed over to the Mayflower to meet Bess Truman at the launching of an annual money drive for the National Symphony Orchestra. It was the first public meeting between Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Barkley. Both smiled expertly for cameramen...
...Senator Millard Tydings (D-Md.) chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, was away from Washington yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment...
...profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking an ax handle on the villain's hand, Conte mauls him from...
Dassin's erratic direction of actors produces some mixed results: Morris Car-novsky's generalized flourishes as a once-happy Greek, Lee Cobb's flabby, badly timed portrait of a marketeer, Millard Mitchell's hard-bitten acting of a tired truck driver. The Italian glitter girl, Valentina Cortesa, seems a likely candidate for the top-salaried star bracket. In the role of a waterfront fixture, she looks like an unemployed countess, but she spikes the role with a sweater-girl figure, viva-ciousness and great self-assurance...
...President Alben Barkley. Secret Service men shooed people away from the sidewalk out front, and forbade photographers to use their cameras. When the visitors finally left, after 2½ hours with the President, they were grim-faced, and their jaws were clamped shut by order of the President. Senator Millard Tydings told reporters: "You wouldn't print the story if you had it, for the good of the country...