Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was out to see the people, to be seen by the people, and to put on the act at which he has no current peer...
...think that this two-week layoff has been a blissful, practice-filled hiatus for Henry Lamar. The Yardlings have probably seen less action during this period than at any other time of the year...
...Enright is a short wizened, 75-year-old Irishman with blue eyes and a characteristic brown hat. He has seen Harvard football players come and go ever since 1888, when he became head caretaker of the Soldiers Field grounds. Enright was officially retired in 1939, but he still helps out now and then when something comes up that stymies the more inexperienced...
...spring before that, some Zionist friends at Harvard had interested him in fighting for Israel and put him in touch with a clandestine organization in New York which was recruiting men and shipping them out to Palestine. His family did not want him to go, thinking he had seen enough of war after flying 101 missions over Germany and being listed as missing for two months...
...authority, I think I would say that Raymond Massey is giving the performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence...