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...Rindge Tech, McKissick began to give specific examples of his program. Talking about political power, he said "We must begin to stop looking at politics upon such a high plane. We must stop thinking in terms of nominating the President and work for candidates for every conceivable office: sherriff, judge, dog-catcher...
There the situation stayed, with about 100 people milling around. About 4:20 p.m. Edward Boyle, assistant corporation council, arrived and went into a BRA trailer with Deputy Police Superintendent Joseph Saia to discuss the situation with Sherriff Shaw and Ambrosn P. Griffin, BRA project manager...
...those much under 60, World War I is the creation of Graves and Hemingway, Remarque and Dos Passes, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? World War II, though less well served, has had its Mailer and James Jones in the U.S., Monsarrat and Waugh in Europe. But where is the panoptic work which would survey the between-wars generations that carried catastrophe in their bones like a disease...
Based on R. C. Sherriff's Home at Seven, a hit play of the 1950 London season, Anatole de Grunwald's screenplay inherits some theatrical virtues. Its scenes are clearly built, its parts consistently written. The story itself moves at about the speed of Fate with a hotfoot. The speed, along with some lively shifts of camera angle, almost prevents a moviegoer from realizing that the camera, poor dog, is not really bounding free through the narrative growth, but poodling along on a choke leash of stagy words...
Three months ago British Playwright R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End) turned down a $28,000 offer to write a movie scenario for Hollywood. Reason: after paying Socialist Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about...