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...effort to get a Republican nomination in Connecticut for U.S. Senator.) In all, she delivered 47 radio and TV speeches during the Eisenhower campaign. The most effective: a coast-to-coast telecast on the Administration's record on Communism in Government. Into her speech she cut newsreel clips and phonograph records of testimony from Whittaker Chambers, Communist Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and others...
...trick ending reveals all the preceding events to have been nothing more than a pipe dream resulting from mass hypnosis induced by a mysterious stranger (Dan O'Herlihy) as a plea for preparedness. To go with this stock plot is a good deal of stock newsreel footage of atomic explosions and battle scenes. The newsreel shots give the picture what little authenticity...
When it hews to fact, Above and Beyond has documentary validity. And its final sequence, pieced out with newsreel shots of the Hiroshima bombing, has the impact of epochal drama. But unfortunately, Producers-Directors-Writers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank have combined their awesome A-bomb subject with a grade B Hollywood plot. Marital misunderstandings keep cropping up between Colonel Tibbets and his wife (Eleanor Parker) because of his dedication to his job and the secrecy attached...
...baroque conference room of the old State Department Building, Washington. The seats are three-quarters filled with reporters. On stage, center, is HARRY TRUMAN, in snappy dark blue suit, with a blue pocket handkerchief peeping out of his breast pocket, matching his blue silk tie. Around him, PHOTOGRAPHERS and NEWSREEL MEN cluster. They have been specially invited by the President to give the broadest possible sweep of publicity to what...
Better Than Orson. Suddenly Pinay was a hero. Frenchmen began to compare him with Raymond Poincaré, who won fame in the 1920s not because he had been both President and Premier of France, but because he had saved the franc. In newsreel theaters, flashes of the dignified little man in plain double-breasted suit and the homburg provoked wild applause-"the first politician since De Gaulle who has received spontaneous applause," reported an impressed minister after an afternoon at the movies. At the autograph exchange in the gardens of the Palais Royal, the signature of Antoine Pinay went...