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Cease Fire (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a picture made to show what happens at the front on a day when the communiqué says that nothing happened, proves that the communiqué pretty much tells the truth. A patrol goes out and wanders around most of a day without meeting the enemy. In the end there is more than a little shooting, and the patrol captures a hill. Producer Hal Wallis uses a straight documentary style, which is sometimes effective. Unfortunately, in his respect for facts he often forgets to respect his characters or his audience-as when the camera shows...
...first time in U.S. history, a new movie had its premiere on television last week. The film, Paramount's Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden, was not very good. But the TV audience was not very large either; it consisted only of those who could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription...
...courses that they would have liked to take. The only prerequisite for admission is a high school diploma and a valid reason to study under the Extension program. And there is practically no limit to the number of students, except in a few language courses where individual instruction is paramount...
Statistics prove that the Committee on Admissions still considers scholastic ability of paramount importance. The average I.Q. of the entering freshman class has risen each of the nine years that Mrs. Eliot was director...
...beleaguered Warsaw fighters, then land their planes on Soviet territory (because of the long distance from Western air bases). Stalin refused permission. Churchill was so angry that he considered threatening a cutoff of the Allied supply convoys to Russia. But the needs of the Grand Alliance were still paramount and he did not "propose this drastic step." Yet Churchill adds: "It might have been effective, because we were dealing with men in the Kremlin who were governed by calculation and not by emotion . . . The cutting off of the convoys at this critical moment . . . would perhaps have bulked in their minds...