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...uttered by any top-rank statesman since V-J Day. The world Communist line, "soft" during the war, has been gradually hardening into a return to the tactics and slogans of world revolution. Comrades everywhere could be expected to take a tip from Uncle Joe's speech and sharpen their opposition to non-Communist governments...
Like its competitors, the News Chronicle of 1946 is still on a four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ...
...such students in vocational schools-but there, Henry objects, they take four years to learn what they could learn (with pay) in industry in a few months. His recommendations: more movies and radios in the schools, much more pioneering in the uses of arts-drama, music and painting, "to sharpen the awareness of pupils to their everyday surroundings...
...they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan's station...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...