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The Taft men had an interesting argument to justify their wanton behavior. They averred that they had no way of knowing whether the people who voted for the pro-Eisenhower delegates were Republicans of long standing and protracted loyalty. They said they rather thought not.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eyes of Texas | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

It's bad enough to strait-jacket Kirk Douglas with this type of worn-out Western. Warner Brothers errs even further by creating a nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Trees | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Dunster's kitchen is off the central system, but it doesn't make much difference so far as food is concerned. The food is certainly no worse than that of the other Houses, but it isn't any better. At times, furthermore, long waits for various courses smell suspiciously of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster's Close Bonds Make Tutorial Work | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

In dramatizing the adjustment of a seven-year-old Indian boy to a white man's world, the picture offers no feathers, war whoops or ceremonial dances, but it unfortunately uses some stock movie devices. Little Son of the Hunter, who speaks no English and is resentful of white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

It was not without considerable interest that I read Mr. Leve's recent letter to you regarding Moselle and other wines. Leve is a man of well-known connoisseurs and erudition, and I venture to suggest that he could not possibly have made some of the sweeping assertions therein attributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grapes of Wrath | 2/20/1952 | See Source »

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