Word: hatchetman
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...University of Michigan was proud of Professor Malcolm Herman Soule, 54. A precise and brilliant scholar, an exacting teacher (students called him "The Hatchetman of the Freshman Medical School"), he was also one of the nation's top bacteriologists...
...story begins by giving its hero, U.S. Surgeon Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 5 minutes to live. At a mountain outpost, the government's apologetic hatchetman (Jack Hawkins), a charming, articulate villain, tells Fairbanks he will die in "a shooting accident." While he waits, Fairbanks and Writer-Director Gilliat's facile camera go back to tell how he got into such...
...appending a few observations to the letter and quietly inserting the whole correspondence in the Congressional Record. There the matter would have rested, buried in the Appendix, if a free-lance journalist had not spotted it and passed it on to the New York Daily News's able hatchetman, John O'Donnell. Last week, Columnist O'Donnell ran the full text of the correspondence. A few hours later, Harry Truman's gratuitous remarks about the U.S. Marine Corps glared bleakly and blackly from the country's front pages...
Unlike Svoboda, new Defense Minister Cepicka had no experience of things military. But in the eyes of the Kremlin he had more important qualifications: his loyalty to Russia and his talents as a hatchetman would be useful in speeding up indoctrination of the armed services along proper Communist lines. Meanwhile, Old Soldier Svoboda took up the newly created job of Vice Premier, in charge of physical culture and sport...
...show the transition from the rough, sincere desire of a man to serve the public to a skilled politician's desire to please the folks at home. Up for Academy Award recognition, along with Crawford, are John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge for their portrayal of Governor Stark's cynical hatchetman and hatchetwoman. They should get their Oscars, too. And the same goes for director Robert Rosson for weaving a fast-moving narrative, a penetrating character analysis, and a moral into one fine move...