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...throbs in a teary story about a British ballet impresario (James Mason) and a dancer with a weak heart (Moira Shearer). This yarn has all the trappings of high romance: shadowy settings, flickering candlelight, crashing music and overwrought passions. But its poetry is buried beneath a heavy load of prosaic moviemaking...
More surprising was the reaction in the country. From the ornate rostrum of the Chamber, beneath the stone-eyed gaze of Attic beauties, the prosaic tannery-man from St. Chamond ticked off the things he proposed to do: fight inflation, which had shrunk the franc to one twenty-fifth of its prewar value. Bring down prices, not by dirigisme (the Frenchman's word for government controls) but by persuading the big industrialists and the countless Antoine Pinays of France to be content with more reasonable profit margins. Balance the budget, not by his predecessors' resort to higher taxes...
When he had finished, the reporter from the Communist Daily Worker asked him if his collective punishment policy was not the same as that used by the Nazis. Templer's lip curled into a smile like a soundless snarl. Grimly he recited the prosaic, ghastly facts & figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter...
...swore simply to "protect and insure protection of the Constitution." Outgoing President Miguel Alemán turned over the green, white and red sash of office. Ruiz Cortines thereupon became the 48th President of Mexico. His inauguration address was low-voiced and prosaic, his only gesture a finger pointed straight in the air. "We will open a new era in the history of Mexico," he said...
Although the beaches of both camps were well sprinkled with pelicans, the huge show had a hard core of excellence. Perhaps a score of the 559 pictures transcend both expressionist strutting and abstractionist wing-flapping, as well as prosaic egg-laying. For two such pictures-standouts among the six watercolor award winners-see following page...