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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand new, Europe cannot afford to pay for the dollar goods she must buy from the U.S. to help her own recovery. The Marshall Plan is supposed to cover this gap, but it is due to lapse in 1952. There is a good possibility that it may be continued much longer than this for political reasons. But if Congress fails to renew the Plan, and at the same time tactfully continues to duck the question of our own trade barriers, a dollar starved Europe is going to have to arable around pretty hard to keep from a serious economic cave...
Elmer Madar, who scouted Brown Saturday with Henry Lamar, reports that the Bruins are considerably improved over last year. Though the graduation of Ed Finn has weakened them in the passing department, Brown has a much smoother running attack and has added many plays to its winged-T repertoire...
This is pretty much what Robert Graves's new novel is all about-except that peppy Ysabel doesn't join the admiralty until the last quarter of the book, while the gold rush occurs in the first three-quarters and is led by Ysabel's husband, who is a general...
...result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James] was a completely pitiless killer." His opinion of some of the other Old West badmen who turn up in the files is not much better...
...think I would say that Raymond Massey is giving the performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence...