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...hour upon unbearable hour, questioners brought statements before him to sign. At first, Oatis objected to the "confession," redrafted it and made corrections; each time it came back written in even stronger language. "I had been awake for something like 42 hours . . . They would not let me sleep till I had signed, and so I signed [because] of my absolute helplessness, convinced that my only hope lay in playing their game...
Statesmanship does not fit the rules. Political leaders (most of them, according to Psychologist Lehman, not original creative thinkers or artists) are usually not at their best till they are over 50. Moreover, today's statesmen are older, on the average, than in previous epochs. William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at 25 in 1784, Sir Winston Churchill not until...
...work. He takes off for New Orleans with his wife, teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist and joins one of a dozen Klannish clubs bent...
...named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days...
Scriptwriter Daniel Taradash rescued, if not quite a gem, then at least a high-grade industrial diamond from this rough original; and Director Fred Zinnemann, whose hand showed its great skill in High Noon, has polished the diamond till it cuts. In the refinement, it is true, something has been lost: the bloody but beautiful amateur standing of it all. There are touches of slick sentimentality that do not seem to come from the book; and many readers of the novel will miss some of the original's honest and barbed-wiry vignettes that had to be shorn away...