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...subject of Harry Truman's 1952 intentions came up again at his weekly press conference. The President wasn't saying, just acting deliberately mysterious. It has become an unprofitable line of inquiry and a stale joke, but both sides went through with...
...spots, Author Simenon writes with deft satire about his fellow countrymen. Where he tries for something like tragic irony, he achieves only the stale, sentimental cliche about the iron mask of success hiding suffering human clay...
Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...
...more puzzling characters is a ubiquitous fellow named Pashik. Mousy little Pashik carries a black dispatch case in which he keeps stale meat sandwiches and a revolver. He keeps urging Foster to stay out of trouble. For some reason Foster trusts him and, as it turns out, Foster knows his man. Pashik proves to be a sturdy and reliable lover of freedom after all-and perhaps a symbol of something Author Ambler thinks the totalitarians can never entirely suppress, no matter how hard they...
...feud between priest and whittler continues, but it has become flat, stale and unprofitable. Today Bessans' No. 1 whittler is Emile Tracq, 46, who has sold travelers some 500 devils and statuettes modeled on his wife. He prefers the devils because "I can carve one in 50 hours. It takes much longer to do the Virgin or a saint." According to the village priest, Tracq's works "lack soul...