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...plot at times doesn't stand up under close inspection, the picture is a fast-moving, well-acted, well-written, and excellently directed gangster story. Robert Taylor is a big-shot crook with a heart so hard that he doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till almost the end of the picture. When he does find that he loves her the story becomes lightly trite and melodramatic, but up to then it moves along with a freshness, rapidity, and even originality, which are a pleasure to behold...
...pressure can have one of two effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
Last January four young Canadians looted a Japanese candy-store till, shot & killed Proprietor Yoshiyuki Uno. Last week a Vancouver court sentenced all four of them to be hanged...
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...Leading can didates of the guessers were Dorothy Thompson, Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with...