Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lexington, Va. and its 3,500 inhabitants had seldom had such a busy week. Every time the daily "Virginia Creeper" crept into the station, it spilled out more notables onto the platform. They included some 90 deans and presidents from colleges all over the U.S., come to help celebrate the 200th birthday of Washington and Lee University...
Champion is hard & fast at slugging the audience. It is stunningly photographed and the pace seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...
...Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those he did chance to read ..." Most of the essential work got done. Said New York's present mayor, William O'Dwyer, "Jim Walker as mayor got more things done...
Characteristic in December. The trouble, as he later explained it, was that he had trusted people too much. "I knew how to say 'no,' but could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...
...troubles with publishers, poverty, his wife's unwelcome pregnancy and the everlasting pressure from Communist pals to make Bernard give up his creative independence and write party-line tracts. Farrell's handling of this overworked material is inept to the point of being ludicrous. Since Author Farrell seldom settles for less than a trilogy, Bernard Carr is almost bound to show up at least once more (The Road Between is a sequel to Bernard Clare-TIME, May 20, 1946). Perhaps it is still not too late to take Critic Fadiman's advice...