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...plot is simple. It shows the family life of Frank Gibbons (Robert Newton), his wife Ethel (Celia Johnson) and their three children. Vi (Eileen Erskine), a docile creature, gives little trouble. She marries a young pinko, but quickly domesticates him. Reg (John Blythe), a charming, rather irresponsible boy, messes about on the left side of the general strike but marries and turns out well in the end. Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers...
...suspicion, and an already critical situation is worsened by TIME's habit of damning the land of the Soviets on all occasions. TIME annoys by its devotion to a nationalistic American Century and by its attempts to smear, with seeming objectivity, all liberal groups as Red, Commie or Pinko, a set of terms that was once the exclusive property of the Hearst press. Good Democrats wince when, as a "newsmagazine," it refers to Republican election victories in terms of solemn rejoicing for the country, and scoffs at or discounts Democratic triumphs. Luce thinking, like all party lines, is ofttimes indigestible...
General George Marshall, back in his Chungking mediation job, wanted to find out the price for which the newly rampaging Chinese Communists would settle. He asked Lo Lung-chi, head of the pinko Democratic League, to find out. Lo had a talk with Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, then Lo spilled enough beans to make the Chinese situation clearer than it has been for many a week...
...Mine is the comedy the Lunts played in London last season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...