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Unfortunately, Author Lederer is a heat generator rather than a light spreader. Any of the 130,000-odd purchasers of A Nation of Sheep who take Lederer's case at face value must feel inclined to dump the U.S. Government into the Pacific and start over. Such invitations to despair are just what engender the rancorous ("We are betrayed") hysteria of the Birchites and other seekers of simple solutions to complicated problems...
...onetime paper-proliferator and information-spreader for the War Production Board, Humorist Caskie Stinnett, 47, knows his subject but does not really know what to do with it. The trouble is that bureaucracy all but defies satire-because it is satire. The facts are funnier than any imaginable fiction...
...succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...
...since 1946, she has been vice chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. To get to political meetings on the western Nebraska plains, she has traveled by plane, car, snow sled and on horseback. Says she: "I've gone to those meetings in everything but a manure spreader...
Perhaps director Raoul Walsh considered Martin so fascinating that he wished a minimum of attention to be focused elsewhere. Martin is undoubtedly a remarkable and enigmatic character: a man who was seemingly a sincere spreader for the "little man everywhere" and yet was capable of calculating ruthlessness; one who drew people to him by his personal dynamism and then twisted and used them for his own purposes. Cagney's leonine, forceful acting paints a convincing picture of the figure who could drag a dying man onto the witness chair to further his own political ambitions...