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...week Joe Axelrod's personnel department at the headquarters of his textile empire in Woonsocket, Rhode Island was still sorting and classifying the mail as it came in, and he was answering it as fast as he could. Said he: "Holy cats! I never dreamed a story could stir up such a response. One day you're quietly doing business in the same old way; the next you're a national figure with mail and telegrams pouring in from all over the hemisphere...
...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
...Such romantic dialogue as: "Listen, darling, they're playing our song"; "Violets ! Oh darling, you remembered"; "Oh, Keith, darling, look! The stars are so close you could reach out and stir them around"; "Oooh! The bubbles tickle my nose...
Gollancz' most fiery bolts are directed against British and, by indirection, U.S. policy in Germany. To treat the Germans like a conquered people, says Gollancz, is to perpetuate the hatreds that can only lead to another war. "If we treat the Germans kindly, kindness will stir in them. If we show them mercy, they will know, by the immediacy of contact, how 'delightful' mercy is. ... A society cannot be brought into being by doing just the things which it is the very purpose of the intended society to abolish forever...
...Walk Alone (Paramount) brings Burt Lancaster, a distinctly old-fashioned gangster, back from stir, to find that his onetime partners have become nightclub owners and won't cut him in. When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth...