Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused plot focuses on Alan Garraway's hatred for his brother Michael, played by Robert Mitchum, supposed to be the unknown quantity till the end of the play. He is either 1) a Bunthorne-like playboy who absconded with the firm's funds before disappearing in the Army 4-5 years before, and is being grudgingly protected by his magnanimous and eminently successful brother Alan; or 2) he is a wronged and heroic character who really does like poetry, women, and the finer things of life, and has been murdered by his jealous brother Alan...
...takes Katharine Hepburn the gamut to figure out. At one hopeful point she does seem to sense her danger, and decides to give the whole thing up, but she stops to pack a bag, giving Alan just enough time to frustrate the attempt. This sort of thing goes on till Alan is about to drop a tremendous boulder on her head. At this point, it is fairly clear she understands that it's true what she's been hearing and thinking about Alan, but it's too late. However, a nearby horse comes to her rescue and tramples Alan...
Just before Littlejohn testified before the committee, he had had a conference with Attorney General Tom C. Clark. If Tom Clark had held up the sale with the idea of the Government operating the lines till the coal strike was over, he gave no hint. With all the lobbying going on, he might only have intended to toss the hot potato into the new Congress...
Ingredient No. 3. Who was the mysterious lawyer? He turned out to be Theodore Granik, counsel for the U.S. Housing Authority (predecessor to NHA) till 1941, onetime special adviser to WPB and now operator of "American Forum," a radio discussion program...
...patent rights to support himself), finally decided in 1935 to settle in the U.S. because "per unit of energy expended, the returns here are the greatest." But he has not succumbed to America's clock-punching bustle. He eats breakfast late, often does not get to his office till 5 p.m., often quits work at 6, always drinks a bottle of burgundy with dinner to drive out any traces of tedium. He never eats lunch, thinks it "the most godawful impediment to efficiency in this country." His only ambition, which he thinks he has achieved, is "to keep mentally...