Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though played on a larger stage, High Treason is not quite so dynamic as Seven Days to Noon. The screenplay sometimes bogs down in low melodrama, and the pace lags now & then for wordy political digressions. But in Boulting's camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo-documentary excitement. The spectacular climax, as the saboteurs try to take over massive Battersea power station, was filmed at the actual locale among a futuristic welter of catwalks, dynamos and generating equipment. And Director Boulting gives the fanciful plot a realistic look with the odd British types who get tangled...
...legislation through the House of Commons: a bill to make the vast socialized-medicine program created by Labor pay more of its own way. To get the bill passed, the Tories had to resort to the unpopular "guillotine" to limit debate (TIME, May 5) and employ the budget-wise arguments of a pretty red-haired M.P., Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith...
...Robinson, rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 Switzer, lb 4 0 0 12 0 1 Walsh, e 4 0 1 4 1 0 Akillian, lf 4 0 1 3 0 0 Clasby, ef 3 0 0 1 0 0 Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0 Wise, 3b 3 0 0 0 6 1 Sadowski 1 0 1 0 0 0 Rickey 0 0 0 0 0 0 Young, 2b 3 0 1 5 2 1 Maesaka 1 0 0 0 0 0 Arnold, P 0 1 0 0 3 0 Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ward...
Krinsky, ss; Robinson, rf; Johnson, 1b; Walsh, c; Akillian, 1f; Wise, 3b; Smith or Clasby, cf; Young, 2b; Arnold...
Legatta revellers who want to see some of the nation's finest college tennis would be wise to amble over to the Soldiers Field courts at 3 p.m. this afternoon, but those who want to witness the Crimson win would be better off going elsewhere...