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Last week, true to tradition, another Churchill had added his say about how Britain should be governed. He was the Prime Minister's brash and volatile son, Major Randolph Churchill, an M.P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, who was on one of his leaves from duty in Egypt...
Back in England it was no more possible for Churchill to keep quiet about politics than it has ever been for other members of his family (except when they are running the show). To his constituents in Preston he expounded the post-war aims of "thinking people of all classes" as "the abolition of unemployment, equality of education and opportunity . . . removal of class distinction...
Wake Island (Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix; TIME, Sept...
Varsity Squash Racquets-Coach: John M. Baraby II '32; Captain: Gaelen L. Felt '43; Co-Managers "Robert B. Sherwood '43, Jerome Preston...
...possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best...