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Fraught with real peril to the Western world though it was, the news from Iran sounded like a chapter from The Perils of Pauline. Britain was hanging on to a sheer cliff and the spectators were watching breathlessly to see whether she would fall...
...This Is War!, Duncan explains what he set out to do: "I wanted to show what war did to a man. I wanted to show something of the comradeship that binds men together when they are fighting a common peril ... I wanted to show something of the agony, the suffering, the terrible confusion, the heroism which is everyday currency among those men ... I wanted to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men through the ages...
Back in the days when the West was young and bandits roamed the land, one great institution held Young America together: the stagecoach. Movie producers through the years have immortalized the long trip west, the peril of Indians and the fear of evil gunmen. Now, in the story of the saga Overland Stage, the saga of the men who made the trip possible has been told...
...vote for Mr. Truman; [but] shame on anybody . . . who now willfully hampers our country's foreign policy, or alienates our badly needed allies by playing party politics in our time of peril...
...Juan and Evita Perón's Argentina, events are marching decisively in 1951. Inflation remains the country's greatest problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...