Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
...self-respect (in a Georgia town), to take his natural place in the world of men--to be a "member of the world." Both his and Frankie's attempts to solve their problems by swift action are bound to be failures: Frankie cannot go away with her brother and sister-in-law, Honey cannot achieve self-respect by refusing to say "sir" to Frankie's father. Later, both attempt more violent solutions on the same night: Frankie by running away, Honey by slashing a man in a razor fight...
...plot these two must work with is at best ordinary. It concerns a brother and sister team which goes to London for a show amidst the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. While there, Miss Powell inexplicably falls in love with Peter Lawford who plays a British nobleman. Lawford only proves anew that he just cannot act, even in his native surroundings. Meanwhile, the other half of the team, Fred Astaire, interrupts his dancing long enough to go romantic with Sarah Churchill, who is making her much-heralded debut in American movies. Keenan 'Wynn in the double role...
Didn't she realize that she had committed a crime against the U.S.? "I think it's wrong," she admitted. "I've always known it was wrong." She had been talked into the whole sordid affair, she explained, by her husband's sister, Mrs. Rosenberg. Seated before her in court were short, plump Mrs. Rosenberg, her pale, spectacled husband, Julius Rosenberg, and worried-looking Morton Sobell-all three accused of wartime espionage, punishable by the maximum penalty of death...
Names & Sketches. His wife had visited the Rosenbergs, Witness Greenglass went on, and sister Ethel had pointed out that the Rosenbergs were "no longer involved in Communist Party activities, that they didn't buy the Daily Worker any more, or attend meetings . . . And the reason for this is that Julius has finally gotten to the point where he is doing what he wanted to do all along, which was that he was giving information to the Soviet Union...