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...however, ornately produced (in Britain, by a U.S. crew), with more than ordinary feeling for atmosphere; and scene by scene, aside from its central weakness, it is reasonably interesting and sometimes exciting. Ray Milland is helpful in hinting the honesties which no tongue dares to utter. Leo G. Carroll plays Nemesis so well as to make one wish he'd get a chance to play something else. And Geraldine Fitzgerald, who is seen much too seldom, does a fresh and welcome job as the pathetic, unstable old friend whom Miss Todd reluctantly exploits...
...Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years as Deputy Commissioner of Police, admires or despises him because, in a world of utter corruption, Policeman Scobie seems utterly incorruptible. What they do not know-what Scobie himself does not know at first-is that in order to feed his voracious sense of pity, Scobie is ready, if necessary, to break the most cherished laws of both Church & State...
...from Corunna). At two points on Gallipoli, the evacuations were executed so admirably that the entire force of 83,000 soldiers was brought off with only half a dozen casualties. But Dunkirk was not the result of expert planning. It was a last-minute improvisation, stamped by "complete and utter absence of red tape." It depended chiefly on the horse sense of hundreds of independent skippers...
...seven months on TV, Mrs. Lucas has never burned a cookie or fluffed a line, although she was "frightfully nervous when we did apple pie." CBS has imposed just two restrictions: no emphasis on brandy, rum or cooking wine, and no live food. Mrs. Lucas regards both taboos as utter nonsense: "Why, when we had lobster thermidor, I had to kill the lobsters before the program, and that's most unhealthy, you know." Next week, in the new last-word television studios CBS is opening in Manhattan, Mrs. Lucas will move into a last-word, specially built kitchen...
...Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...