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Producer-Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler wisely junks the play's long speeches designed to draw parallels between McLeod's rigid zeal and the evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tory Triumph? | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

...movie has it, Hitler erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Thoroughout most of the City the move is being met with zeal. But there are a few hold out areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleanup Craze Covers Cambridge As Last Ditch Dugout Defies DDT | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

...administrator, a prominent citizen of the Jewish community, Finkelstein was bound to come to grips with Zionism. As a student, he had been attracted by it. But as he grew older, and the political preoccupations of the movement became clearer to him, his zeal for the establishment of a Jewish state began to cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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