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What Goes Up ... In the 30s Hammerstein went into a tail spin. Called to Hollywood when sound pictures started up, he helped turn out some very unsound ones. Back on Broadway, he had one or two mild successes and a string of flops. And then came Oklahoma...
...tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...
...spokesmen that "total rejection of the Bretton Woods plans might delay and endanger future progress toward international understanding in this and other fields." But the bankers did some rejecting themselves. To one half of the plan - the Monetary Fund - they applied the strongest word of condemnation in their language: unsound. Then they presented, as an alternative, their own proposals for attaining Bretton Woods's far-reaching objectives...
Gloomiest observer was the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. Over & over again during the past two years FHLB Commissioner John H. Fahey has warned that every type of financial insti tution has been making "reckless" loans, that the "unsound wartime realty boom" could have but one end: a postwar wave of foreclosures that might make the last depression look like a sideshow...
...observers in Allied and neutral countries could see other reasons: 1) the invasion had neither been stopped on the beaches nor hurled back into the sea by the man specifically picked for the job 27 months ago; 2) despite his high professional standing, Rundstedt had long been considered politically unsound from the Nazi point of view; 3) he and his field commander, the Nazi favorite Marshal Erwin Rommel, had disagreed sharply on tactics...