Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the one-man lobby was startled by his success. J. J. (for Jag jit) Singh, president of the India League of America, got through Congress an amendment which will permit famine-stricken India (pop. 389,000,000) to share in the largesse of the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. He had finally put through something that India's timid official delegate had not even dared to bring up at UNRRA's Atlantic City assemblage...
Five Flags. Pleased with the success of the Marshalls operation, Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt last week nominated Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance as a full admiral, Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner as a vice...
Back to the Hills. The Patrol's success has earned Senior Patrol Officer Ingoldsby a bid for a postwar job in the Navy. To this he has emphatically turned two deaf ears. A self-made man who went through the National Police Academy after quitting high school to work, Ingoldsby thinks little of his postwar Navy prospects. When the war is over, he intends to make a beeline for his job in Virginia's peaceful Blue Ridge mountains, where there are no sailors...
Jane Eyre (20th Century-Fox) is a florid, somewhat disappointing cinemadap-tation of Charlotte Bronte's story about the long-suffering governess who finally marries Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), the melancholic and irascible squire with the mad wife. There is little success in capturing the Brontean intensity of atmosphere and of character which should have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period...
Desti Rides Again. Sturges' brilliant, successful yet always deeply self-sabotaging films suggest a warring blend of the things he picked up through respect for his solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect...