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After ten months as an emergency cinema critic for the New Yorker, waspy, wispy Wolcott Gibbs explained to readers of the Saturday Review of Literature why he will never again try to review movies:
The Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was...
Who's Winning Now? In spite of another mistaken U.S. bombing of a Swiss town, the Swiss signed a new trade agreement with a U.S.-British mission headed by Washington's wispy Lauchlin Currie and London's Dingle Foot. The Swiss, who three years ago were squeezed...
The revival of the week was the old story about the diva who was ill and the understudy who stepped in at the last minute and scored a hit. It happened at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House: the diva was bosomy Yugoslav Soprano Zinka Milanov; the understudy, a wispy...
To the hordes of prewar tourists and expatriates who flocked from the U.S. to forgather on the banks of the Seine, a copy of the Herald was a breath from home, almost as good as meeting an old friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen...