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...point that "Malaya" gets across is that greed has no nationality but Americans have. Jimmy Stewart and Spencer Tracy play two American nondescripts, one a newspaperman and the other a convict. They are sent to Singapore to steal rubber from the Japs during the war. The rubber stealing business makes a reasonably good Terry-and-the-Pirates adventure story; but the obscure transition by Tracy and Stewart from riff-raff to flag-bearers makes the whole plot implausible and over-sentimental...
...from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them on an easier way to easy money: they introduced them to two Russian officers in civilian clothes...
...good friend, Roger Sermon, mayor of Independence, Mo. Then it shifted to Washington's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul. There, on an unseasonably balmy afternoon, bareheaded Harry Truman and Bess, too warm in a mink cape and navy blue taffeta, tried in vain not to steal the show. They wanted to be as inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome daughter Edith ("Drucie") to John Ernest Horton, a personable former White House social aide, soon to be a movie pressagent. Drucie...
Back home, the boy continues to steal, partly out of boredom and partly out of spite. When Gerald threatens to beat him, the boy imprisons himself in handcuffs and waits to be killed. To Gerald he cries: "Nobody's ever hated me before, like you do." Gerald protests his affection and the boy. as if suddenly peering into the sickest depths of the soul, replies: "It's the same thing...
...past decade, there has been no "atom-bomb secret" which Russian spies needed to steal. This fact has been asserted again & again by the Atomic Energy Commission and backed up by responsible U.S. physicists. The central "secret"-that an atom bomb can be constructed-has long been known to all the scientific world. Last week the AEC's files yielded documentary proof: Russian scientific papers on the subject, published in 1940, before the U.S. started its atom bomb project...