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...from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds she is about to have a baby: "God is swell...
...Emerging from a long silence, the disbanded political parties of Rumania addressed King Mihai: Rumania is on the threshold of collapse, they said; Dictator Ion Antonescu is responsible. His policy lost us independence and the sacred soil of Transylvania...
...Objective. The decisive objective in the east was the port and railway center of Catania. As Montgomery's troops stood at the threshold of Catania, a British battleship came up to shell the port. Planes bombed it. The Italians confessed that its fall was near. General Montgomery's eyes must have glinted as he remembered the interview he had given. Once Catania was his, the battle for Sicily could be little more than a battle for more coastland, then for Messina, if the Hermann Görings survived in enough strength to fight for that port. In Messina...
Less than a year ago, Germany was reaching across Africa and into the Caucasus, preparing to strike at Suez. A huge pincers movement threatened to put the entire Middle East in Axis hands. Japan, victorious in Burma, stood at the threshold of an almost defenseless, politically confused India. The enemy had a very good chance to join hands; the result might easily have been the complete defeat of Russia, Britain, the U.S. and China...
...would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child nevertheless: whatever the risks for her and the penalties for him, life must...