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...leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes her two love affairs intelligent, sad, dignified. Vincent (The Hard Way) Sherman's direction of a careful cast turns a negligible play not so much into cinema as into good average theater...
...office with a door marked in gold letters. "General of the Armies." A beribboned colonel sits inside the door. General Pershing's own room is beyond. The room is blue-carpeted; on its walls hang four portraits of America's dead and buried Generals: Washington, Grant, Sherman. Sheridan. There is a fireplace, but there is no fire in it. There is a large desk but no one sits there. The long mirror hanging over the cold fireplace reflects no living presence. The office of the General of the Armies is empty...
...Deal is a poker term used by General William Tecumseh Sherman...
...University of Chicago's The Human Adventure radio program is not a new idea. It was used successfully for 42 weeks on CBS in 1940. The originator was William Benton, advertising man emeritus (Benton & Bowies), now a University of Chicago vice president. Sherman Dryer, head of the University's radio department, produces it with the assistance of the faculty and Chicago radio actors. As a dramatization of the factual research going on in colleges and universities, Chicago's show has already scored heavily with students of many degrees of learning...
...attitude of many a cartel-minded British bigwig, Benton reported, was epitomized by Lord McGowan, chairman of the potent Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a director of General Motors, who said naively: "I see no hope for collaboration between British and American business unless the U.S. repeals its Sherman antitrust act. Can we in England look forward to that...