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...play's average American hero is Smith, a newspaperman. The average American villain is his employer, a publisher named Charles MacPherson, who is a mixed incarnation of Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired...
...Columbia University's dental college, Dentist Daniel Ziskin has decided that concentrated lemon and grapefruit juice, both highly acid, do indeed soften tooth enamel. (Orange juice, less acid, seems to be safe.) But acid is not the only villain. The real damage is done by brushing acid-softened teeth with a stiff brush or gritty dentifrices. If not followed by too vigorous brushing, drinking diluted citrus juices once a day is perfectly all right, says Ziskin...
Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan are a wooden and rather uninteresting pair of principals, and as a minor villain Peter Lorre plays another in a long line of roles which, in retrospect, seem all about the same. As chief heavy, a newcomer named Steve Cochran does little but scowl menacingly, in a picture wherein action moves at the pace of a snail and suspense is kept down to a minimum...
Hunt for a Villain. In Washington, a Senate committee was shrilly trying to find out why. ODT's J. Monroe Johnson led off by accusing 1) CPA, for not allocating enough steel for cars and 2) the railroads, for not ordering enough cars. With the U.S. in immediate need of 100,000 freight cars, railroads have so far placed orders for only 78,000. What the railroads should do, said Johnson, was order at least 250,000. That would make it worthwhile for car companies to set up mass production lines...
...Villain Found? Some railroad men laid the blame to lack of steel. Only 48,000 tons of steel a month, said they, were allocated for freight cars in 1946 under CPA's "voluntary set-aside" policy. It would take 180,000 tons to turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased...