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After the opening scene, a firing squad execution, an unseen narrator announces that Decision Before Dawn will explain why a spy risks his life to betray his own country. The picture never quite does this, but in trying, Twentieth Century Fox has produced a semi-documentary melodrama that can be best described in superlatives...
...only contribution to art. His admirers believe that, at 68, he is the greatest living sculptor. His critics argue that this is true only if, by sculpture, is meant the art of making speaking likenesses. For jovial Jo has never been one to conjure up abstractions or depict the unseen "soul" of his sitters. He takes people, quite literally, at their face value. When the face wears a mask (as he finds most faces do), Jo waits for the moment when the mask slips-and pounces...
Your editorial entitled "Unseen Spectators" is a wilderness of nonsense. "Since debating is primarily a spectacle, it is purposeless without spectators," it says. Harvard debating does not attract spectators, and "the result has been the forensic feebleness illustrated last week by the double loss to Yale." This is blockhead thinking...
Cartoonist Harold T. Webster doesn't own a television set, has never seen a Milton Berle show, and would rather play bridge than watch Faye Emerson, plunging neckline and all. Yet his once-a-week cartoon, The Unseen Audience, has made him one of the nation's best and best-known critics of radio & television...
From some of his readers, Webster draws blood instead of chuckles. An outraged network executive complained to the New York Herald Tribune, Webster's employer, that The Unseen Audience is undermining the confidence of the American public. Says Webster: "The burden of his letter was that he wanted me muzzled." Another wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, agreeing that the industry had its shortcomings and suggesting that Webster drop in some time and talk the whole thing over ("The burden of his letter was that the profits were so juicy they just couldn't help themselves...