Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sickness. Seven major U.S. airlines (notable exception: Eastern) had been in the red since last October. They got into the black again in May, but still have a long way to go to make up their deficits. Example: United Air Lines, the first of the big carriers to report second-quarter earnings, netted $310,682. But it still lost $3,239,852 for the first half...
...Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed). But by the time the picture ends it is clear that Ladd never funked for an instant, handed out no more bullying at West Point than he took, never tells lies, and is in every way worthy of the Academy and of Miss Reed...
...juvenile delinquents of yesterday have become the gangsters of today, and they are much smarter and more dangerous, we are told, than the old gangs used to be. A disguised FBI agent (Mark Stevens) hangs around the hard streets of a large provincial city and gradually works his way into such a gang. His object: to identify those responsible for a chain of thefts and killings...
...Scobie, and can easily miss the irony beneath that sympathy-or, noting it unawares, can find it ambiguous or confusing. Is it any part of Author Greene's purpose that readers should misconstrue the nature of Scobie's sinfulness-misconstrue it, in some cases, all the way to sainthood? Obviously not. But if an author is widely misunderstood, the reader is not usually to blame...
...Alexander Korda. His slumming adventures are received by his family with mixed feelings. His white-haired old mother very naturally writes them off as nonexistent, says firmly of the use to which her son puts his escapades: "Graham must imagine it." But his aunt looks the other way and admits frankly: "It seems very realistic...