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...Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death...
Soon after Paul was born, his father (Dining-car Steward Charles Banks) & mother noticed that he was different from their other three children. He was as wrinkled as an old man. When Paul began to lose weight, they took him to the hospital. The doctors diagnosed his disease as progeria, the fourth recorded case...
...Chief Steward on the Liberty ship with Mr. Archie Campbell...
Albert Worrall, 24-year-old shop steward in a Vickers-Armstrong factory in Manchester, was fired. During a propaganda broadcast from the plant, he had shouted "What about Mosley?" into a BBC microphone. The Manchester branch of his union, the Amalgamated Engineering Workers, threatened to strike if he were not reinstated...
...male passenger and the plane's steward were thrown clear as the tail cracked off; they were rescued. Among the 13 who died were two women and four children: another victim was a U.S. clergyman, the Rev. Dr. T. C. Hume, of the World Council of Churches...