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Builder & Botanist. Author Hahn supports the theory that the British Empire was much more a collection of happy accidents (happy for the British) than the resuit of a long-range policy. But, like all previous biographers, she "has .no doubt about the empire-building ambitions of Raffles himself. "[He] saw...
The first comparison that thinking American audiences will probably make is between this British film and some of the stupendous offerings of the West Coast celluloidaterias. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, described Howard as being "just middle-aged once," are small, quiet, English bourgeoisie who are thrown, by chance, into...
Unlike Japan's prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the...
Chirographical Gumshoe. To clinch their point, the unromantic authors enlisted Louis A. Waters, a chirographical gumshoe, whose workaday job is special consultant in forgery cases for the New York state police. Says Author Smith: Chirpgrapher Waters "is not a Shelley specialist and has nothing about Shelley to prove other than...
There are still large sections of the world where Canada means Eskimos, Indians and red-coated Mounties who look like Nelson Eddy. To right such misconceptions, the Government last week decided to toot a more unromantic horn. To replace the temporary Wartime Information Board, born in 1942 solely to publicize...