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Sirs: Talk about Rex Stout's reporting. In his letter published in your issue...
Just after pressing the buttons that started his new Chicago Sun, Marshall Field III had his picture taken with four of his chief aides: George De Witt, John Dienhart, Rex Smith and Publisher Silliman Evans. The group picture was hung in the Sun's cramped little wire room. De Witt, Dienhart and Smith fell by the wayside in the first eight months; some office commentator marked an X over each departed face. Sixteen months ago somebody put a large question mark over the heavy-jowled likeness of highly paid publisher "Ivans. He frequently joked about...
...Does this mean that the U.S. could wash its hands of the whole business? Many Americans would like to think so. Those who believe that the answer to the German problem is extermination of the German people-the most vocal of whom are Littérateurs Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout-have few supporters...
...ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...
...cast is high praise. Even the extras, for once, look like soldiers. Reason: they are soldiers who were training at Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry. Even more gratifying is J. Carrol Naish as the innocent, bewildered Italian prisoner, shooting the works in an entirely new kind of part...