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...four-lane bridge is dedicated, by act of the Legislature, to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University from 1869 to 1909. The Harvard motif is carried out with red brick and granite facing and with a plaque hearing the dedication to Eliot...
...four-lane bridge is dedicated, by act of the Legislature, to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University from 1869 to 1909. The Harvard motif is carried out with red brick and granite facing and with a plaque hearing the dedication to Eliot...
...dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...
...innocent man who tries to clear himself by finding the bill and the notary, and the thief. The innocent is murdered and the notary poisoned. In the last few hours of the notary's life a search for the poisoner ensues; it is here that the film finds its motif...
...kids bought ice cream and hot dogs from shining blue trailers (the Communists had specially lowered the price of hot dogs for the occasion). They rode merry-go-rounds and Ferris wheels. Giggling girls had their pictures taken with genial Soviet G.I.s. The rally's propa- ganda motif was "Friendship." Wherever two groups of blue-shirted youngsters met, they shouted "Freundschaft!" at each other. Truckloads of grinning Communist cops-looking as incongruous as gunmen at a Sunday picnic-careened through the streets, yelling "Freundschaft!" at the moppets, who enthusiastically returned the salute...