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...specter is haunting Russia-the specter of socialism. Britain's Labor Government had been in power little more than a month when last week that wayward wraith, the western bloc, in the guise of an entente of western Europe's socialist governments, began to clank familiarly through the international corridors. Its promoter was Professor Harold J. Laski (TIME...
Indignant juvenile delinquents of both male and female gender have poured forth their wayward wrath upon Freshman cynic Donald S. Rugoff, who read Life Magazine's recent pictorial essay on the gloriously wholesome American teen-age girl and wrote to the editor venomously suggesting that he had been looking at our young girlhood through "rose-colored glasses," and urging him to take a soulful glance at the pick-ups in Times Square and Boston Common...
...OMEN - Lawrence Treaf -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). The sudden death of a cook turns the rural week end of Psychologist Carl Wayward and his wife into a murder investigation that involves extrasensory perception, precognitive dreams, psychiatry and unadorned violence in its suspenseful course. Not altogether convincing, but notable for crispness and novelty...
...Chinese-American student Helen Gong: Schweitzer improved wayward students' characters...
...Lubitsch has been able to see more light touches in his cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate invention lags, many spectators will be only too glad to concentrate on the Eastern beauty of Gene Tierney as the one true love of Ameche's life. Had Ameche died 20 years earlier, audiences would...