Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polled exactly the same amount of votes which the Communist Party polled in Berlin's last free elections before Hitler, in 1933. It was a measure of its disastrous unpopularity that it was beaten even in the Russian sector of Berlin. TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief John Scott cabled a portentous conclusion: "This fiasco will, in my view, clinch the opinion of Russian leaders that they must resign themselves to losing political control, at least temporarily, over almost any area where reasonable political freedom exists...
...TIME Correspondent John Scott in Berlin last fortnight, three Russian Orthodox churchmen reported their recent command visit to the Soviet Union and the condition of their church there...
...sharp tongue (he once described Novelist Sir Walter Scott as "a dwarf who is determined not to lose an inch of his stature"), his always unexpected views ("It gives one somewhat the desire to be buried," he remarked on seeing the tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo), his dogmatic epigrams ("The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist") won him a drawing-room notoriety that his face and figure could never have...
...this weak-willed, fear-ridden, drunkard of a district attorney is the only man outside of Van Heflin who knows about Barbara Stanwyck's murderous past. He also is married to her. But she loves Heflin, and when he comes back after eighteen years that starts trouble. But Lizabeth Scott loves Heflin too. But Heflin can't decide between Miss Scott and Miss Stanwyck...
Still alive at the end Scott and Heflin, both of whom give excellent performances. So does Miss Stanwyck, but she gets a bullet through her middle, which doesn't seem quite fair...