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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heiress*-a period play of mid-19th Century Manhattan-centers in Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
...freight business, the showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying...
Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...
George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...
...Zabel says, "the world in which his tales are set has receded to historic distance and become, with its standards of honor and fidelity, a dimming memory in men's minds. . . ." Marxian critics have found him "exotic" because he failed to write of factories; a perennial kind of plain, impatient critic has found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither time nor fashion really affects its nature, which is Sophoclean...