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...General Motors strike, the leaders of the belligerent, unruly United Auto Workers, C.I.O., rolled up their sleeves for a battle over union politics. Delegates representing U.A.W.'s 600,000 will pour into Atlantic City for their annual convention next week to choose the men to steer the union through the next year...
...into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian's desk, is Miss Garson. She seems bright enough to know a lot about the soul, not bright enough to steer clear of Gable...
Last week, wearing a bright yellow sweater and a sky-blue dress (by special permission of the Navy), Captain Mac gave a newsman a glimpse of the postwar course she plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that...
...Expendable has to say or do anything embarrassingly mushy or heroic. No one has to crack any bad jokes: Characters are brought in without formal introduction and bowed out before the audience gets to know them well. Human relationships are indicated sharply but briefly. In trying to steer between war melodrama and straight documentary reporting, Expendable beats a middle course through waters that are too rough for speed...
King in Crisis. Preoccupied by these personal problems and pleasures, the Shah, Mohamed Reza, was scarcely the man to steer his country through a crisis. His Majlis (Parliament) of feudal landlords was not much help. Many of the abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran...