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...untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will emerge with a bright new idealism: it will be very similar to the old. Meanwhile, many leaders of the former picketings and rallies and bull sessions clung to their raft of obsessions and quietly disappeared when war and contact with the raw, coarse stuff of a democratic country shook loose their inflexible grip...
When this dark young guy gave her the long look in a New York subway car, something happened to blonde, empty-headed Pearl Lusk. Here was Mr. Excitement in person-sharp, smiling, hefty; a lonesome Latin with a George Raft face, and a slow burn in his eye. The minute 19-year-old Pearl saw him, she began to feel pleasantly jittery...
Cinema Hard Guy George Raft, who had been getting the full treatment from Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who disapproved of Raft's associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave...
Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...case of the dead composer looks like suicide, but Detective Raft knows better. First, his stubborn talk of murder gets him bounced from the Homicide Squad. Then his continued detecting, without pay, gets him shadowed by a sinister fat man, beaten up, involved with an enigmatic lady (Lynn Bari) and eventually hunted by the cops...