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...Technicolor is a little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...
Further opposition exists, however. While some Senators were dully apathetic toward ECSC, others heatedly criticized aid on the basis that it would speed the expansion of Europe's heavy industry. Whereas the first reaction was rooted in disillusionment, the second grew with vigor as the U.S. coal lobby spread its propaganda. This group emphasized that as ECSC develops European capacity for mining coal, it also reduces the amount exported from the United States. The Senate Committee was seemingly faced with the dilemma of choosing between domestic coal interests and foreign commitments...
...with a Flair. In the rowdy game of Australian politics, no man has played with more vigor and flair than Herbert Evatt. A twangy-voiced, clumsily eloquent, self-made man from the New South Wales coal-mine area, he blended a superior mind, a well-nourished ego and a twelve-cylinder ambition into a striking career: he earned the highest marks in the history of Sydney University's law school, scored sensationally as a defense lawyer, wrote eleven books (including an angry defense of Captain Bligh against Hollywood's version of the Mutiny on the Bounty), became King...
...universe get the way it is? This largest of science's questions was attacked with vigor by the bold "Cambridge cosmologists" at the Oxford convention of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C (NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor). The dozenth LP of this masterpiece and the second by the Maestro and his men. This one has the advantages of modern recording techniques, and Toscanini, 85 when he made the recording, shows undiminished vigor (the finale whips along like 60). The fancy album leaflet includes an appreciation by Essayist André Maurois...