Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris With Love (Rank; Continental). It takes a certain nerve for a comedian to try a throwaway line. But it takes nothing less than the sublimest gall when he tries-as Alec Guinness does in this comedy-a complete, unmitigated, 78-minute throwaway picture. He tries, he succeeds. To Paris With Love is a suave and elegant little comedy of indirections. And yet, unfortunately, Guinness & Co. will probably discover that in throwing away their picture they have thrown away much of their audience...
Captain George MacDonal will start at catcher, backed up capably by "Bing" Crosby and Phil Haughey. MacDonald hit a solid .283 clip to rank second on last year's team...
Said President Eisenhower: "The recent session of the disarmament commission of the U. N. has again resulted in no progress and no clear crystallization of thinking on this subject. It has an inseparable relationship to our constant objective of peace." Stassen's new post carries Cabinet rank, probably the first such that any government has devoted exclusively to disarmament...
...Tory rank and file, scenting Labor blood, are convinced that they can sweep the country. "Let's have a go at them," said one organizer last week. "What are we waiting for?" But the signal must come from Churchill, and last week the old man was giving a performance that suggested that he could go on forever. He tangled with Russian Foreign Minister Molotov,* scolded the U.S. for releasing the Yalta documents, then, in a workmanlike speech that glowed with grandeur and precision, slapped down a Labor attempt to censure his government. He allowed himself a gentle gibe...
Hardly less extraordinary than the service or the church is the man largely responsible for them both, 40-year-old Father Paul Bureth. St. Anne's financial angel and a first-rank showman...