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...Scum. Top specimen of social scum is Adrien de Pontillac, French aristocrat and Vichyite ruler of Marseille. His instincts refined to a delicate dimension of amorality, De Pontillac is one of the lovely brutes who classifies women by zoological categories, and has made indifference to other people into an art of living. When orders come from Vichy to round up all Jews into internment camps, he sets about his task with the precision of an official in an abattoir...
Beady little eyes and perfect features--that's what makes an excellent shrunken human head, according to R. Victor Moran '50 who is now willing to pay as much as $80 for a truly good specimen...
Hamlet & Hancock. Among the prize English items: William Caxton's printing of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1475), first book printed in English; one of the two known copies of the 1603 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Top American purchases include: the only specimen of Columbus' handwriting in the New World; John Hancock's letter naming Washington commander in chief; the neatly penned Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...
...show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses her temper four times, and even leaps from a moving automobile. Through all of this, Spencer Tracy plows doggedly ahead. His scenes with a kitten--cats make him sneeze--are about the only ones that really click. The kitten, however, is too often gerrymandered...
...credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers are treated with all the consideration accorded the Dieppe incident, yet the contrast of War vs. Pipit is handled so skillfully that realism is never misplaced...