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...Blue Dahlia (Paramount) and Her Kind of Man (Warner) are welcome throwbacks to a better, rougher day in movies. Before Hollywood had adjusted to talk without forgetting all the vivid lessons of silence, when none of the men in power had heard too much about literature, or movies as a white-collar art, and the sinister forces of Decency were still relatively quiescent, many vigorous, perceptive and entertaining movies were turned out. The best dealt with violence and skill-usually criminal-in big cities. Good examples: Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Crowd Roars...
Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world...
...been grounded for three hours, and would be for ten hours more. The Sacred Cow flew in & out of a pea-soup overcast, ran into violent headwinds and icing. It arrived in Kansas City an hour and 19 minutes overdue. Even the President conceded that, while he had seen rougher trips, he had not seen many...
...growing out of different languages, customs and behavior, and 2) the Russians' desire to make a good showing of their ten weeks of occupation. The Russians are proud of their Army's victories, not so proud of its appearance and peacetime behavior. They wanted to get the rougher elements out and the disciplined troops in before the British and Americans came. And they wanted the British and Americans to see how well they were cleaning up and running the city. This caused some officers to fail to carry out their orders to turn over authority to the British...
...Corps Headquarters in weather so rough the Piper Cub pilot's sweat visibly rolled down his neck, while I counted the wings to see if they added up to two. When we 'crabbed in' for a landing the pilot said: 'If you ever have a rougher flight you'll never write about...