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...Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland's capital to rubble. "Please don't write about that," a Finnish civil servant told a TIME correspondent in Helsinki last week. "We in Finland never mention Porkkala...
Last Christmas two young Swedes got drunk together. Johan Fritiof Enbom, pale, slim and 33, began bragging to his roommate of his exploits as a secret service agent. Soon, his boasting gave way to remorse. Enbom's roommate drank in the whole startling story, then hurried to the police...
Alexander S. Panyushkin, Russia's Ambassador to the U.S., was in a rare, talkative mood. He told newsmen who had gathered outside Dean Acheson's office that he was "supremely happy." What about? The pale-faced ambassador looked surprised that the reporter hadn't already heard; he was going back to the Soviet Union, leaving the U.S. "forever." It was the most positive statement Panyushkin had made in his 4½ years...
Gwen John never heard such public praise in her lifetime. She lived much of it in painful seclusion in France, rarely showing her work, caring little for outside opinion. Her subjects were simple ones: a woman holding a cat, an empty room, a vase of flowers. Her pale colors and still figures gave the pictures a quiet, reticent look. But there was nothing vague or misty about them. All had been drawn with a strong, accurate hand...
...Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes).* The picture has a warm, earthy flavor with handsomely photographed Technicolor scenes of the rolling Shropshire countryside. And a strong cast helps cover up some of the story weaknesses: David Farrar swaggers masterfully as the horsy squire, and Cyril Cusack is appropriately pale and wan as the deserted parson. But it is in Jennifer Jones's lush, wide-eyed performance as the passionate girl that The Wild Heart beats most strongly on the screen...