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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High Treason, the J. Arthur Rank people examine the problem of Communist sabotage in England and conclude that as long as Scotland Yard employs cool, resourceful investigators there is no cause for alarm. It is a solid suspense job which mounts to a fine climax, then closes with a wonderful burst of thin-lipped realism...
Starring Robert Donat, the J. Arthur Rank technicolor masterpiece features almost every well-known English star. Michael Redgrave briefly appears as an instrument maker, while Emlyn Williams only faces the audience once...
First of all, the Department should elevate its Latin American chief of the rank of Undersecretary of State. He would then be able to catch the President's car directly instead of working through a Secretary distracted by other problems. Whatever new programs and Undersecretary might devise would receive the attention and have the stature that they deserve...
...back to Japan, Evangelist Sachs hopes to provide him with a helicopter to help in setting up the Japanese organization. Says Sachs: "We're honestly trying to build him up as the Apostle Paul of Japan." In the international Sky Pilots organization, ex-Captain Fuchida will have the rank of a one-star general...
...that she had to have the blue ration card issued to children (a source of shame and grief to her), but her Ophelia was excitingly mature. She was given a try for Laurence Olivier's film, Hamlet. She lost the part to Jean Simmons, but Moviemaker J. Arthur Rank was impressed by her, and signed her to a film contract. Her first movie was called The Blind Goddess, a run-of-the-mill picture whose memory still makes Claire wince ("I was a modern ingenue, dancing at the Savoy, that sort of nothing type of thing"). After the picture...