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Many of his friends say that Stevenson is worried about the possibility of going down in history as the man twice defeated by Eisenhower. This is understandable, but even such an eventuality would be nobler than retreat before imagined defeat. Probably there are other less selfish considerations. Because Adlai has way above average intelligence, he is not complacent. He is well aware of the immensity of the problems confronting a President. He doubts whether he or any man has sufficient ability to perform the function of Chief Executive. He thinks it is presumptuous for anyone to insist that...
Tight Spot (Columbia) offers Ginger Rogers as a melancholy dame who must ask herself whether it is nobler in the mind to be a jailbird or a dead pigeon. Edward G. Robinson, the Government attorney, drags her out of a nice warm prison to offer a very cold proposition indeed: Will she turn state's evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give...
...until the end." A fortnight ago, after a final meal of shish kebab and beer, he stretched out in a Tel Aviv hotel with the announcement: "I was willing to die for Israel's freedom during the war, but I believe a free family life is an even nobler cause." Life for Law? Israelis at first shrugged their shoulders at what seemed a publicity stunt, but as Barak's fast went on and his husky frame shrank, letters and telegrams began piling up at his bedside. A committee for "Freedom of Conscience" plastered towns and villages with posters...
...lines and situations to serve Tallulah as a vehicle. If never the least bit Parisian, she is frequently lively. There are those sudden moments when her voice comes up like thunder, or she freezes with raffish hauteur, or has the charm of something caged and carnivorous. There are doubtless nobler ways of being unmistakable and unforgettable, but in a world where few people ever manage to be either, Actress Bankhead remain almost incessantly both...
...already a legend. Wrote New York Times Critic Olin Downes: "Should this have been his permanent farewell... his name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered. There has never been a more gallant and intrepid champion of great music, or a spirit that flamed higher, or a nobler defender of the faith...