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Into the Eye. The big plane (named the Columbine for the Colorado state flower) left the French coast, bored on westward to land 15 hours later at Stephenville, Nfld. The Eisenhowers, dead tired, headed for bed. Next morning they were up in time for a 10:30 a.m. takeoff. The sun had just broken through the clouds over Washington when their Constellation swept across the National Airport, wheeled to the south on a wide sweeping turn, and touched down on the runway at 3:55 p.m. Precisely at 4 o'clock, the Eisenhowers stepped out smilingly into the roped...
...story of the Rosas goes back to a day in the War of 1812, when the good ship Marquis de Somerueles, flying the American flag, was bowling westward over the Atlantic and ran into trouble in the form of a British man-o'-war. The Somerueles and her cargo, including crates of Italian art for Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were hauled off to Halifax as prizes...
...years in Russian concentration camps. Following the occupation of the Baltic states by the Wehrmacht, Msgr. Sloskans was handed over to the Germans by the Russians in exchange for Russian nationals whom the Germans held prisoner. Like many of his compatriots, Bishop Sloskans fled the Russians as they moved westward in the last years of the war, and eventually wound up in Belgium...
...women in this motion picture are, in fact, quite frightening. All of them are brought together by a common desire; they want to get married. Since no one on the Eastern seaboard is interested in marrying them, they head out West to take what they can get. Westward the Women is their mule and waggon safari to California. They start off with Robert Taylor and a bunch of cowboys for protection. As things turn out, the cowboys need more protection than the women. Taylor warns his boys to "stay away from the wimin," and he shoots a few offenders...
Both the plot and the women of Westward the Women struck me as being ludicrous. The girls belong in a James Thurber story, not in a Western. The plot and dialogue are fit only for female monsters. I therefore recommend this motion picture to all women with amazon aspirations; the boys should stay home...