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...exists a disparity which the world must notice. . . . The Nűrnberg judgment will look well or ill in history according to the future behavior of the four nations responsible for it. . . . If they behave as nations have invariably behaved till now, it will seem no more than the quirk of an oddly assorted bunch of victors...
...were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Georgia...
...stipulation that the picture must be dedicated to the infantry and tell a true story of the G.I.s. But the movie will be full of Ernie. And it will stress his frailties throughout. It will admit his fear of battle, his apprehension about his work, his latest quirk-the conviction that now he is in France, he is going to be killed...
...entire action of "Lifeboat" takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
Seriocomic "Oxie O'Rourke" has lately been taking on more importance than ever in the Daily News (circ. 440,000). Once he was merely a sidelines character, along with his straight man, "Torchnose McGonigle," in Clem Lane's stories of Chicago crime and political shenanigans. Now Clement Quirk Lane has become City Editor, and the Daily News has been ballyhooing him as a Finley Peter Dunne, finding with more ease than accuracy a parallel in Oxie and Torchnose to Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" and "Mr. Hennessy...