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...mysteries are essentially inexpressible, and writers who try to express them slip generally into soap opera or a sort of exquisite silliness. Author Godden does neither, and in this film, which clings to her theme and hues to her mood as the clear peel colors and cleaves to a plum, the camera seems at moments to enlarge and lay bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York...
...bench vacancies and getting near-automatic presidential approval. Some Senate veterans have still to hear the new message, and, more than any other factor, senatorial balkiness has held up the flow of nominations. In Texas, Senator Ralph Yarborough and Vice President Lyndon Johnson quarrel now over every available patronage plum; Justice hopes to resolve a potentially bitter fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts, Johnson men for two available judgeships in the northern district. Another troublesome appointment is a new district judgeship in eastern Colorado. Democratic Senator John Carroll...
Soon the bombed and battered British were startled to hear Plummie's fluting, very English voice on Radio Berlin. Plum was living in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, and at the invitation of the Nazis, had recorded a series of five radio talks with the bantering title: How to Be an Internee in Your Spare Time Without Previous Training. Though heard in Britain, the series was beamed to the U.S., which was wavering on the edge of war. Apparently, Hitler's propagandists believed Plum's breezy account of his misadventures as British Civilian Prisoner 796 would...
...they were guiltless and complete repudiation of the charges so ignobly made." A far-right Tory himself. Waugh declared that attempts to brand Wodehouse a fascist were part of a wartime conspiracy to "direct the struggle for national survival into proletarian revolution." Far from being a playboy, bristled Waugh, Plum is "one of the most diligent writers living" (total: 81 books, 23 plays), whose European royalties had in fact paid for the "soft...
...bashi-bazouks" like the camp Kommandant, and a corporal whose mania for counting and recounting the prisoners prompted one inmate to swear: "After this war is over. I am going to buy a German soldier and keep him in the garden and count him six times a day." Concluded Plum: "I would say that a prison is all right for a visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me." Bertie Wooster could hardly have put it better after a night in the Bow Street cooler...