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Throughout the six days of complex, technical testimony, the Senator-jurors had the painful experience of being forced to sit virtually speechless. When they had questions to ask, they scratched them on pieces of paper, sent them up by page to the presiding officer. Witnesses had to stand while testifying. First to be called was Lawyer Rankin. Stoutly he insisted that the $4,500 he had given Judge Ritter was payment on an honest debt-the sum for which he had bought out the assets of their partnership...
...Present is Earth's front parlor. . . . Archeologists and paleontologists pick the locks of the dim cellars of the Past, where Earth keeps the shadows of her fabulous beasts and speechless half-men, the ghosts of her once-glorious rulers. . . . Recent doings of diggers...
...rank so soon "stank of Staviskery." Appointment of onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, widely considered an Anthony Edenophile, was hailed as an anti-Fascist victory not only by Communists and Socialists, but also by Mme Geneviève Tabouis and her entourage of Leaguophile correspondents at Geneva. They were speechless with rage when Foreign Minister Flandin unexpectedly pledged himself to follow "the same policy as Laval in foreign affairs...
...methods, wrote abbreviated scenarios which he calls "treatments." Having declared himself "immune to blondes," he was taken in hand by two riotous brunettes, Writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves me speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton. Last week, ready to leave the U. S., h.e was asked to pose for news-cameramen. Gaily borrowing...
...tenderness, in which the best French pictures have so often outclassed Hollywood, give these little scenes a dramatic impact which, by comparison, makes the collapse of Pompeii (see p. 52) a pin drop. Good shot: in the ring of faces around the white rabbit, a minute, snub-nosed Negro, speechless with approval...