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...likely to get hopelessly tangled in a welter of entering-and-exiting great-aunts, uncles, fathers, cousins, sons, daughters and defunct ancestors. But what they will get clearly, and often admirably, is Author Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem to be brought in merely to show...
Most Italians and Allied observers feared, with good cause, that the spark that would set off an explosion would come from the Communists. The Communists were not numerically strong in Catholic Italy. But the Red organization was well-knit. It had demonstrated before, at Andria, that it knew how to carry out an armed coup...
While it gets off to a slow start, "You Touched me" succeeds very well as comedy, mostly because of Edmund Gwenn, but where "The Glass Menagerie" had a well-knit cast, Gwenn pulls the cast of "You Touched Me" a little off-balance. And unlike "The Glass Menagerie," the more topical new prodigy of Tennessee Williams types its characters...
Adams topped the newly-formed V-12 A-B five, 28 to 21, yesterday. Although still a far cry from a well-knit unit, the A-B squad showed considerable ability...
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled...