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...opposed to some of his earlier roles, Cagney is strong but not silent. His dialogue is strictly the Sam Spade variety--fast, entertaining, and with a stout-hearted quip for every occasion. Cagney's old friend--also a reformed alcoholic--is consistently very funny as he fusses over his tomato juice, attempting to hide its taste...
Hall got an idea. He would work for McGinley, but in reality get evidence on these Fascist organizations for an eventual expose. He allied himself with an anti-totalitarian, civil rights group "The Friends of Democracy" headed by Rev. Leon M. Birkhead and Rex Stout, and from '47 to '50 travelled all over the country making contacts with former Bund members, racists, and rabble-rousers, and infiltrating the Klan and Gerald L. K. Smith's inner circle, where he had his own private office. "Smith thought I was a bright young Fascist brain-truster," he explains...
From the Lord Chancellor's office "in Whitehall last week, stout manila envelopes marked O.H.M.S. ("On His Majesty's Service") were expressed to every mayor, provost and sheriff in Britain and Northern Ireland. Each contained a copy of a royal proclamation: "Being desirous and resolved as soon as may be to meet Our people, [We] do hereby make known to all our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament . . ." At St. Paul's Cathedral Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill and Clement Davies, leader of the dwindling Liberal Party, knelt at pre-election prayers...
...February 1945, in time to qualify for U.N. membership. It was cut off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the Moskofs (as the Turks call the Russians) started growling. Turkey's stout defiance of Soviet demands for joint control of the Dardanelles taught the U.S. and the Western world, in 1946 still under the dreamy illusion of being able to do business with Russia, a great deal. If you said no with conviction and determination, the Russians paused...
Bunkers & Blasts. Heartbreak Ridge has been the fiercest Korean battle in four months, worse than Bloody Ridge, worse than the Punchbowl. The North Koreans were holed up in stout, deep bunkers that resisted direct artillery and mortar hits. When they lost some of these in hand-to-hand fights, they threw in a series of heavy counterattacks, using five regiments one after another. Twice Americans got to the top, only to be blasted off by enemy fire. This week neither side held it, although at some points on the slopes their positions were only yards apart. The dirty, unshaven...