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...version, directed by documentary-minded Henry Hathaway (The House on 92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about off the coast of Southern California. To offset this handicap, canny Skipper Hathaway has concentrated on character study, backed by careful casting and straightforward camera work...
...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
...Hugh Scott hung on to his job. Afterwards, the men who had denounced him, and whom he had denounced as "a clique of scheming men," decided to make his re-election unanimous, as a vote of "confidence." But the whole performance left the G.O.P. no nearer to the comeback trail than ever. The committeemen had demonstrated some of the things wrong with the party; not one of them seemed to have any real idea how to set it to rights...
...group of guests, denounced him as lazy and useless. This meant a terrible loss of face for young Mao. He ran out of the house, his father in hot pursuit. Young Mao reached the edge of a pond and threatened to jump in if his father came any nearer. "Demands and counter-demands were presented for cessation of the civil war," Mao recalled. "My father insisted that I apologize and kowtow . . . I agreed to give a one-knee kowtow if he would promise not to beat me. Thus the war ended, and from it I learned that when I defended...
Most newsmen thought that distant hypothetical danger far less than the nearer hint of censorship in Headline Harry Toy's action. Snapped a Detroit Free Press reporter: "It's one of the most ridiculous attempts at censorship that I've ever seen a sawed-off local official pull...