Word: tyrant
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...expansive man; he does more listening than talking, and when he does talk, it's short and to the point. He is the boss but not the tyrant of the Digest. Says one of his senior editors: "Several of us don't hesitate to argue with him." Managing Editor Dashiell helped organize a chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, which the Digest has attacked as the advance-guard of Communism. An unpretentious man, Wallace not only answers his own office phone (Chappaqua 1-0400), but may chat with a subscriber complaining that he missed an issue...
...Browning Version (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's own adaptation of his one-acter about a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, an unloved, dried-up academic tyrant on the way out of an English public school after 18 years. Like the play, the film daubs life liberally with greasepaint. But it is still a moving story, and lends British support to the Hollywood slogan that movies are better than ever-especially when adapted with care from successful plays or novels...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
...treaty-all for one and one for all ... With such a program ... we would have actually more human beings [850 million] on our side . . . than there are in all the miserable slave states under Communist control. . . Such tremendous might on the side of freedom . . . would be more than any tyrant would dare attack. It would be the greatest alliance in history for peace...
...Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife, a pet cat and a new version of Inoue's story. The petty tyrant of Ana-tahan, it seemed, had been not Ichiro, but Inoue himself. His highhanded rule caused his compatriots to banish him from their group to a lonely spot on the island from which he had engineered his own surrender...