Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whittaker Chambers showed no elation at the turn of events. "I would be inhuman," he told reporters, "if I could take any pleasure in Mr. Hiss's personal troubles."† The new grand jury had taken over. As its first act, it summoned Chambers to go on telling his story...
...Holcombe bounced back into office. He was elected during a municipal crisis: the city treasury had run dry. The light company had turned off the street lights and municipal employees were not paid. Holcombe was elected on his pledge to tidy up the city books. Part of his inauguration ceremony was the throwing of a main switch to turn on the street lights again. Houston was soon...
Hollywood, certainly not the sanest community on earth, has managed to turn out an excellent movie about insanity. The Snake Pit (20th Century-Fox), starring Olivia de Havilland, is not a great work of cinematic art. It is, like the frightening scream from Miss de Havilland which rattles its sound track, an honest, accurate and dramatically powerful echo of certain ugly facts of modern life. It does what Hollywood has rarely done before: look harsh reality in the eye. Backed by enthusiastic reviews and smash box-office success in two big cities, The Snake Pit will be released next month...
...will naturally expect no declaration of policy [about Edinburgh University] from me at this stage. But I firmly believe that a university must turn out men & women who are fit to live, as well as fit to earn a living . . . After all, we sleep for one third of our time, we work another third-but there is still a third left. Education should prepare one for the whole of one's waking life...
Most valuable of tlie books on the shooting war itself was General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, a lucid account of Allied strategy, written in serviceable Service English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines...