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...there is a good-and growing-opportunity for the Free Chinese to stab at the coast with Commando-type raids, keeping the Reds militarily off balance, and tremendously encouraging the mainland guerrillas...
Test of Ike's success was the desperate effort made by the Cominform to pace his tour with riots. Everywhere the Cominform failed. In a last stab at Ike, the Communists called for a monster rally in front of his Paris quarters in the Hotel Astoria. Fewer than 5,000 Communists turned up; half of them were arrested. In Metz, Toulouse, Rennes, Dijon and Lyon, the Reds planned demonstrations that did not come off. Red crowds in Marseille, Lille and Valenciennes tried to riot, were quickly broken up by the police...
Copper Canyon (Paramount) is a milestone of mediocrity in Hollywood's current stampede to make Technicolored westerns pegged on the Civil War (see below). Neither good, bad nor indifferent to any standard device of horse opera, the picture makes a feeble stab at novelty by casting Hedy Lamarr and Ray Milland- both with the wrong accents-as a saloon queen and a Confederate ex-colonel...
Even so, Reader Cain should have taken a stab at the Burning Bright theater program, which gave the title's source as Blake...
...little Bartlett is a risky stab, Look under ballad as well...