Word: tinhorns
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TIME Inc. need not worry that "good U. S. citizens" are condemning it for giving space to World Peaceways advertisements, even the "HELLO SUCKER" ad which prompted that tinhorn outburst from the Legion's ballyhoo director. Rather, "good U. S. citizens stand . . . united" in applauding the timely courage and vision that has prompted World Peaceways, assisted by FORTUNE et al., to picture the stark horror of war and what it does to those who fall its victims...
...admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel. A bombastic tirade against tinhorn esthetes, clumsily written and woodenly directed, I Believed in You is noteworthy solely because its 26-year-old leading lady, if she possesses the energy and ability shown by other members of her family, may get somewhere some day. Rosemary Ames's father was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, famed...