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...Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
...ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...
...efficiency of Red China's administrators is due not to "brain washings" [TIME, Oct. 8], but rather to the guns they carry on their hips, plainly marked with a red rag so that the people will not fail to see what can make them efficient...
...says, "So little, once it has changed, changes back: the world knew us: we would never be warm again: I let go, saw winter coming toward a cold tree, cried, cried, came apart like a rain-rotted rag." The impression after the last word is not pessimistic, however. It is a sad wisdom, a beautifully told truth...
...fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding the rag...