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...hard to discover what the director's contribution is, if any. But in "A Place in the Sun" there is very little trouble in detecting the work of a man who knows his profession well. To begin with, he has used three performers, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters--who up to now have shown little or on capacity for honest and mature characterizations. From them he has drawn three exciting and moving performances...
Come now, TIME, quit teasing and let's get on with the show. Re the Tone-Neal-Payton isosceles-what was Lord Coke's Rule in Shelley's Case...
...Edward Coke (1552-1634), first to be called Lord Chief Justice of England, was only 27 when he pleaded and won "Shelley's Case," the most celebrated in English real-property...
...doctrine did not originate with this case, but was so ably pleaded that it became known as the "Rule in Shelley's Case." What it did, in effect, was to punch a loophole through an old legal wall by making it possible for an heir to dispose of an estate at his own discretion (within reasonable limits) instead of holding it perpetually at the disposal of his heirs...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...