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...Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts are known, and the fiction is laid in with a sober sense of historical responsibility. Hitler is not ridiculed; Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote the film, and G. W. Pabst, who directed it, have had the good taste to realize that a man who caused the deaths of millions is nothing to be laughed at. Yet neither...
...guard of biographers, unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt on the flank of American history...
Said Stuart: "The descriptions . . . often resemble old-fashioned Communist caricatures rather than sober presentations of fact." The ambassador then proceeded to cite some sobering facts about Canada-U.S. economic relations: ¶ Rather than increasing to dangerous flood proportions, as some special pleaders claim, the flow of U.S. capital into Canada is actually receding. It was $346 million in 1953, $318 million in 1954, dropped farther in 1955. ¶ Canada's great industrial boom in recent years was neither wholly financed nor owned by U.S. investors. About 85% of the overall expansion was financed by Canadians themselves. Incoming...
...contrast to the impassioned harangues of Halton and Tumulty, Edwards talk was a sober and reasonable review of the Hiss record. He warned undergraduates however, that Hiss would give "a dramatic and charming performance" at the Whig-Clio speech tomorrow night. Students gave the Tribune reporter a spontaneous standing ovation when he concluded...
Next day, when the news broke, all Ireland chuckled, and the usually sober-sided Irish Times ran a happy cartoon showing a trench-coated figure carrying a parcel with words, "It's the Jour d'Eté, and it's hot." An outfit called the Irish National Students Council boasted that two of its members had taken the picture. The night before, two young Irishmen got up on the roof of the Tate Gallery, but police had spotted them and set dogs on them. So next day the young vandals simply walked in, took down the picture...