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Under the surprisingly unimaginative direction of Anatole Litvak the film plays a sad game of Hollywood tag with a Romanoff myth. Ingrid Bergman, the poor heroine, is taken in tow by a group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real...
Captain Tierney supported the plan and felt that it would cut down illegal parking "if we can get good publicity on it." He estimated that there are now about 12,000 cars parked on the streets each night and admitted that his department can only tow away about 20 per night...
Marine Commandant Pate's arrival in Japan with his wife in tow is just another example of RHIP (Rank Has Its Privileges). I can't see that her presence will in any way contribute to the commandant's efficiency while he is there...
Tierney pointed out that every police officer in the Harvard Square area had been given lists of out of state cars which had been tagged several times. "Our men have instructions to tow them in whenever and wherever they see them," Tierney declared. But he quickly added that the police did not discriminate against students. "It's just that the students seem to violate the parking regulation more than anyone else," he said...
...warm Indian summer afternoon last week, a vigorous, white-haired man, caddying his own golf bag with an aluminum tow cart, strode briskly down the fairways of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Sporting a jaunty white cap, grey flannels and a checked shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent neither looked nor acted his 74 years...